A lady shot the supervisor of her Northridge condo advanced Friday morning earlier than barricading herself within the constructing, prompting Los Angeles police SWAT officers to reply to the scene whereas three space faculties locked down, based on police.
The sufferer, who has not been recognized, was sitting in a Inexperienced Hyundai within the car parking zone of the condo advanced within the 17000 block of Plummer Road when she was shot about 11:25 a.m., police mentioned. She was struck within the neck and brought to a hospital.
Police recognized the suspect as 74-year-old Anita Younger, who’s believed to be a resident of the advanced.
Police confirmed that the suspect was barricaded within the constructing and {that a} SWAT staff was on the scene.
Three faculties — Oliver Wendell Holmes Worldwide Center Faculty, Dearborn Elementary Constitution Academy and Highland Corridor Waldorf Faculty — remained locked down as of Friday afternoon, police mentioned.
Younger allegedly has a historical past of violence on the condo constructing, based on court docket papers.
Her neighbor, Sean Robert Lackey, who was additionally the owner, filed a petition for a restraining order towards Younger in 2022, claiming that the tenant was regularly verbally abusive and typically violent.
In August 2022, Lackey alleged that Younger attacked one other aged neighbor with a glass bottle, making an attempt to strike him within the head with it.
Lackey mentioned he was afraid to talk with Younger, who had as soon as spit on him, he wrote.
“I’m afraid for my security,” he wrote within the submitting.
The appliance for the restraining order was denied by a decide.
Lackey declined to remark to The Occasions on Friday afternoon.