INGLEWOOD, California — Two female workers at a technical college in Southern California were shot on campus on Friday and taken to the hospital. The shooting was caused by violence at work, according to the police.
It happened around 4 p.m. in an office at the Inglewood campus of Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. Mayor James Butts said the suspect was likely a former worker there.
TV footage from above showed a lot of cops outside the campus in the city, which is next to Los Angeles to the southwest.
Butts said that one of the victims was in very bad shape. On the social network X, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported that two people were taken to the hospital.
Butts said that someone was arrested after leaving the scene of the crime.
The Los Angeles Police Department said that they arrested a man from a car that matched the description of a car that was linked to the killing and had been sent to other police departments by the Inglewood Police Department. When asked for more information, the Inglewood police did not reply right away.
After the shooting, the school was locked down for at least an hour.
President and top administrator of the campus, Chris Becker, told KABC-TV that the campus is regularly patrolled and that safety is one of the school’s main goals as an aviation school.
She said, “It’s a quiet campus.” The students, teachers, and workers all get along well.
Different parts of the country are home to the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. The college’s Inglewood campus is about a mile (1.5 kilometers) from the Los Angeles International Airport. It has room for 500 students and, according to its website, focuses on training classes in aviation maintenance technology.