A driver was taken to the hospital Friday morning after being shot in the head while driving near Los Angeles, according to reports.

According to a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesperson, a report of an assault with a deadly weapon occurred in the Vermont Vista neighborhood just after midnight on Friday. Confirmed KTLA. The driver remains in critical condition.

Responding officers found a Hispanic man in his 50s with a gunshot wound to the head, the report said. The victim's name has not been released.

After being shot, the victim crashed into two vehicles parked nearby, according to the report. (RELATED: Rapper Stunna Girl Says She Was Shot in the Chest, Posts Video of Gruesome Injury).

Authorities do not know a motive for the shooting and had no information on a suspect or suspect vehicle as of Friday morning, according to KTLA.

All Night Long: Driver shot in head while driving in Los Angeles https://t.co/Sp09x6k4vY pic.twitter.com/dXV1HAyWPe

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On July 25, authorities said they found a man shot in the head and “half hanging” from a U-Haul van in Queens, New York, the New York Post reported. reportThe report, citing law enforcement sources, said gunshots rang out in front of a home in Queens in the middle of the night.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the NYPD. The U-Haul van was also reportedly full of marijuana.

A similar incident occurred in Los Angeles in April. according to A man was found abandoned in the back of a U-Haul truck with a gunshot wound to the head, KTLA reported.

Local residents called authorities after the truck was blocking traffic nearby, and U-Haul employees were dispatched to the scene and found what appeared to be a human body wrapped in a tarp inside the truck, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, KTLA reported.

The man was later identified as Henry Jernigan, according to the local coroner. according to He was reportedly a convicted felon.