More details are starting to emerge surrounding the identities of the two people who were shot dead during a gathering at a venue next to the campus of California State University, Northridge, on Friday night.
In a press release issued Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department said that units were dispatched to the University Plaza shopping center at 11:05 p.m. Friday on reports of a loud party. When officers got to the scene, the 18400 block of Nordhoff Street near Reseda Boulevard, they found “approximately 100 to 200 people” there, LAPD said.
The officers were beginning their investigation, which included contacting the party organizer, when the gunfire erupted within Artist Lounge, a nightclub and event space located on the second floor of University Plaza, which itself lies adjacent to CSUN parking lots and campus…