2 Drug Suspects Wounded in Hollywood Shooting : Violence: An FBI agent and Beverly Hills officer had just met with the men. One allegedly tried to run down the law enforcement officials, who opened fire.

An FBI agent and a Beverly Hills police officer, apparently engaged in an undercover operation, Monday shot and wounded two men in the parking lot of a Denny’s restaurant in Hollywood, authorities said.

The wounded men were identified as narcotics suspects, but authorities refused to provide their names or information about the nature of the operation. A third man, also identified as a suspect, was arrested after the 1:30 p.m. shooting.

Official details of the incident were sketchy. FBI spokesman Jim Neilson said authorities opened fire when the suspects tried to run down the agent and officer with their car. He said the agent and officer had met with the suspects shortly before the shooting started.

None of the estimated half-dozen shots hit the restaurant, and no customers inside were injured, witnesses said.

Witnesses said that the two men were apparently driving separate vehicles. Larry Graham, 40, resident of an apartment house across the street from Denny’s, said he was looking out the window when he heard authorities identify themselves and shout “Halt!”

Then, Graham said, he saw a small, red Volkswagen screech around the Denny’s parking lot at 5751 W. Sunset Blvd. As the vehicle raced past, one of the law enforcement officials fired at the car with what Graham said was a semiautomatic rifle.

Meanwhile, another official fired at a pickup truck as it backed out of a parking place in the lot, wounding the driver, Graham said.

“I stayed up long enough to see what was happening, then I hit the ground, “ Graham said.

At a muffler shop across the street from Denny’s, the manager, Roger Nunez, 50, said he heard the “popping of gunfire” and a car roar out of the parking lot.

“The driver looked to me like he had been hit,” Nunez said. “They just opened up on the car. He (the driver) ran through a light (at Sunset Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue) and nearly ran over two people.”

About two blocks away, at La Mirada Avenue and Van Ness, the Volkswagen crashed into a pickup truck, driven by Scott Thibon, 27, of Arcadia.

“I was driving on the street minding my own business and ‘Bam!’ the guy slams right into me,” Thibon said.

The driver was bleeding when he climbed out of the wrecked car, raced into an underground parking garage of a building, and then ran into the back yard of a house next door, Thibon said.

“You could tell he was in bad shape,” Thibon said.

He said officers, including some who appeared to be armed with machine guns, surrounded the house and arrested the man several minutes later.

Details of the arrest of the third suspect were not available, the FBI said.