A woman shot the manager of her Northridge apartment complex Friday morning before barricading herself in the building, prompting Los Angeles police SWAT officers to respond while three area schools went on lockdown, according to police.
The victim, who has not been identified, was sitting in a green Hyundai in the parking lot of the apartment complex in the 17000 block of Plummer Street when he was shot about 11:25 a.m., police said. They hit her on the neck and took her to a hospital.
Police identified the suspect as Anita Young, 74, who is believed to be a resident of the complex. Police said the suspect shot and killed herself inside the building.
Three schools, Oliver Wendell Holmes International Middle School, Dearborn Elementary Charter Academy and Highland Hall Waldorf School, remained closed as of Friday afternoon, police said.
Young allegedly has a history of violence at the apartment building, according to court documents.
His neighbor, Sean Robert Lackey, who was also the landlord, filed a restraining order petition against Young in 2022, alleging that the tenant was frequently verbally abusive and at times violent.
In August 2022, Lackey alleged that Young attacked another elderly neighbor with a glass bottle and attempted to hit him in the head with it.
Lackey said he was afraid to talk to Young, who had once spit on him, he wrote.
“I fear for my safety,” he wrote in the document.
The request for a restraining order was denied by a judge.
Lackey declined to comment to the Times on Friday afternoon.
