2 women critically injured in shooting at Spartan College in Inglewood; suspect at large

Clara Harter and Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times on May 2, 2025

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LOS ANGELES — Two women were critically injured in a shooting at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Inglewood on Friday afternoon,authorities said.

The Inglewood Police Department responded to a call reporting a shooting at 8911 Aviation Blvd. at 3:39 p.m. Two women were taken to a trauma center in Long Beach in critical condition, a spokesperson for the L.A. County Fire Department said.

Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said both women were employees at the college, but did not provide specifics about their roles. He said the suspect, who is believed to be an employee, was reportedly wearing clothing that resembled a security guard’s uniform and was armed with a rifle. A 9mm shell casing has been recovered from the campus, he said.

“Situations like this are very jarring for a community because it promotes a sense of randomness and threatens safety,” said Butts, a 19-year veteran of the Inglewood Police Department. “This is a college campus; you see no reason that there would be this type of crime at school.”

Police spent more than an hour going from room to room on the campus in search of a suspect or additional victims, but did not find anyone, authorities said. Inglewood police said they cleared the campus about 5:15 p.m. Further information on the suspect was not immediately available.

Butts asked anyone who may have information about the shooting or suspect to contact police.

“We’re doing everything we can to identify, locate the suspect and bring justice for the victims,” Butts said.

A student at the school told ABC7 News that he and his classmates were told to shelter inside a campus building for about 90 minutes.

“Everybody kind of got terrified at once and I just feel like we really couldn’t panic,” he told the station. “We really had to just kind of stay cool and the police were here to do their job and we just didn’t want to intervene, so I hope everybody that was involved is safe.”