{"id":270067,"date":"2026-04-16T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:41:08","slug":"one-injured-in-shooting-near-sepulveda-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270067\/","title":{"rendered":"One injured in shooting near Sepulveda Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One person was injured in a shooting near <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/sepulvedams.lausd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sepulveda Middle School<\/a> in the San Fernando Valley Wednesday afternoon, prompting a brief campus lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>School administrators wrote in a message to the school community that they received a report \u201cof a firearm discharged near our campus\u201d but that no students were injured. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the area after receiving a call about a shooting at 3:08 p.m., said Lyndsey Lantz, a department spokesperson. Lantz said one person was taken to a hospital by ambulance. <\/p>\n<p>The extent of the victim\u2019s injuries were not immediately clear, but a school police source told The Times that an officer applied a tourniquet to a victim while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently gathering details on this incident,\u201d said school police spokesman Jorge Herrera. \u201cWe can confirm the shooting occurred off campus adjacent to Sepulveda Middle School.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police are looking for a male suspect, who they believe has left the area. A spokesperson said officers recovered a weapon at the scene, but declined to provide specifics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was injured in a shooting near Sepulveda Middle School in the San Fernando Valley Wednesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14296,4456,349,48,52,51,45458,47,50,49,117466,63,2268,2322,236,3729,117465,117467,135,43526,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-270067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ambulance","9":"tag-incident","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-lapd-officer","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-los-angeles-school-police","19":"tag-los-angeles-times","20":"tag-nature","21":"tag-officer","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-report","24":"tag-sepulveda-middle-school","25":"tag-seriousness","26":"tag-shooting","27":"tag-type","28":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}