The suspect in a shooting at Santa Monica College died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with law enforcement in El Segundo on Tuesday, authorities said. Davon Durell Dean, 39, worked at the college and was suspected of shooting a fellow employee around 10 p.m. Monday at the SMC Center for Media & Design, according to a news …
All Santa Monica College campuses are closed Tuesday as police investigate a shooting the previous night at the school’s Center for Media and Design on Stewart Street. A Santa Monica College employee is in critical condition after they were shot on campus Monday evening in what police are describing as a “workplace violence incident.” The shooting took place at the …
Adina Matisoff, a global studies professor at UCLA, works on the steps in front of the Student Activities Center in August 2020. Federal authorities have launched civil rights investigations into five California campuses — UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, San Diego State and Santa Monica College — since the Israel-Hamas war erupted two months ago, but it is not known …
The new play “By the River Rivanna” is a tale of two interracial relationships. Playwright G. Bruce Smith does not recall how the idea first came to him — “I don’t want to sound like some ‘woo-woo’ artist, but this was a story that was talking to me,” he said — but he was encouraged by his frequent collaborator Perviz …
