Two men were shot and wounded near Santa Monica College on Tuesday, just four days after a campus shooting that left five dead.
Los Angeles police are now on the hunt for a suspect that came up to two men standing in an alley at about 8:15 a.m. on the 1500 block of Michigan Avenue and started shooting.
Santa Monica police spoke to the Los Angeles Times about an hour after the gunman opened fire, saying that he then jumped into a getaway vehicle and sped off.
The two victims suffered a number of wounds from the gunshots, the police spokesperson said. The severity of their respective conditions has not yet been released.
Police officials told the Los Angeles Times that Tuesday's incident was not connected with Friday's shooting, in which five people, including the gunman, were killed at Santa Monica's college campus and in the neighborhood around it.
They did mention that they were looking into whether or not the most recent shooing was related to yet another shooting on Sunday, when a bicyclist sustained bullet wounds.
The victim, a man in his late 20s, was riding along Yorkshire Avenue when a car rolled by and a gunman from inside the vehicle let off three shots.
Friday's shooting has devastated Santa Monica-both the school and the surrounding neighborhood went on lockdown after police shot the heavily armed gunman who killed four people in the college's library.
More information has surfaced about the shooter, who was identified as John Zawahri.
His family was a violent one-Zawahri witnessed his father pull a knife on his mother, in addition to frequent beatings and arguments.
Zawahri was once seen looking online for assault weapons to purchase. A teacher caught him surfing the net for the firearms and sent him to the principal's office at Olympic High School, where he attended classes. He was subsequently taken into UCLA's psych ward, but released shortly after.
