2 Students Wounded in Shooting Outside School

Two teenagers were wounded Wednesday in a drive-by shooting outside Whitney Young Continuation High School, authorities said.

The young women, whose names were not released, were in stable condition at Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital, said a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman.

The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at the high school at 3051 W. 52nd St., police said.

Shorty after classes were dismissed, a group of female students were talking to some male youths in a car parked outside the school, police said. Another car drove by and at least one person inside fired several shots. A bullet struck one of the students in the leg and the other was grazed in the leg.

“We feel sympathy for the students,” said the school’s principal, Jesse Hawkins. “This drive-by thing just goes on and on and on. This is another senseless act of violence. It is just fortunate more students were not standing outside the school when it happened.”