{"id":272197,"date":"2026-04-17T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272197\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:59:11","slug":"boy-13-named-as-suspect-in-shooting-near-la-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272197\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 13, Named As Suspect In Shooting Near LA Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A 13-year-old boy is believed to be the person responsible for shooting a 17-year-old near a San Fernando Valley middle school Thursday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/northridge\/1-injured-shooting-near-valley-middle-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting occurred just after 3 p.m.<\/a> on the 15300 block of Plummer Street, two blocks east of Sepulveda Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting &#8220;occurred off campus adjacent to Sepulveda Middle School,&#8221; according to the Los Angeles School Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived to find the victim, a 17-year-old boy, suffering from a gunshot wound to the thigh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/sepulveda-middle-school-shots-fired\/3876678\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC Los Angeles reported.<\/a> He was transported to a local hospital in unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is not a student at the school, was walking toward the campus to pick up a younger sibling, the station.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was some sort of altercation that proceeded the shooting, NBC Los Angeles reported.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old boy believed to be a student at the middle school was named as a suspect, according to the LAPD.<\/p>\n<p>The boy had not been arrested as of Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting prompted a brief lockdown at the middle school Wednesday and extra patrols near the school on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the proximity to our campus, we placed the school on lockdown and requested assistance from the Los Angeles School Police Department,&#8221; according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. The lockdown was lifted a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Additional officers were patrolling the school campus Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Region North will be providing extra staff to support the safety and wellbeing of our school community,&#8221; according to the LAUSD. &#8220;Our school will also provide resources for students who may request additional mental health support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A 13-year-old boy is believed to be the person responsible for shooting a 17-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-272197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272197","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=272197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}