An alleged tenant-landlord dispute at an apartment building in Northridge led to a shooting that left one woman hospitalized and the suspect dead, according to authorities.
The shooting was reported at 11:25 a.m. Friday in the 17000 block of Plummer Street, near Balboa Boulevard, where a woman in her 40s was found inside a car with gunshot wounds.
She was reportedly “in and out” of consciousness and was transported to a nearby hospital where she remains in critical condition.
According to police, the shooting stemmed from a dispute about an eviction notice.
“It looks like it was some type of dispute regarding an eviction process,” a police spokesperson told reporters at the scene Friday afternoon. “It was the suspect that was part of the eviction process, and sometime, there was some type of verbal dispute, and then that’s when the incident occurred.”
Frank Robinson, a resident, told Eyewitness News he had gone to the gym and when he returned to the scene, he was told he couldn’t get into the apartment building.