In recent decades, the Hollywood area has experienced an economic decline, with large numbers of homeless and poor people living in the area. A low point for the parish came in October 1987, (month of stock market crash) when a gunman opened fire into a crowd of hundreds attending the church’s carnival, spraying the area with bullets.^[9] Two adults and two children (a 15-year-old and a 9-year-old) were wounded in gunfire.^{[10] Blessed Sacrament Church, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA}