Brothers Held After Shots Are Fired at School : Inglewood: One of the rounds sent pupils in a history class scrambling for cover. No one was hurt in the incident. The two suspects are believed to be gang members.

Two suspected gang members armed with a sawed-off rifle were arrested outside Inglewood High School Tuesday for allegedly firing four shots at the school, striking the ceiling of a crowded classroom, authorities said.

Students in the history class scrambled for cover when the shots rang out at about 2:30 p.m., 15 minutes before school was to let out for the day, police said. One bullet lodged in the classroom ceiling and three others hit a concrete wall along Manchester Boulevard, near the school’s automobile shop.

No one was reported injured in the incident.

Arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon were Francisco Jara, 22, and his 16-year-old brother, whose name was not released. Police said they did not have home addresses for the two but believed them to be members of a Lennox gang that is a rival of one of the gangs at Inglewood High.

Jara was being held in County Jail while his brother was at Eastlake Juvenile Hall.

Two plainclothes Inglewood police officers who were parked a block from the school saw the juvenile lean out the window of a beige pickup truck moving quickly past the high school and fire once into the school, police said. Witnesses had heard several shots fired from the same truck a few minutes earlier, police said.

The officers chased the truck until the driver lost control at Fir Avenue and Kelso Street. The vehicle jumped a curb and hit a fire hydrant. The pair was arrested without incident.

Police said they recovered a rifle and a box of .22-caliber cartridges in the truck.

Principal Kenneth Crowe said a counselor was sent to the history classroom Wednesday to talk to the students about the incident.