Two women were arrested for their alleged role in the shooting of a woman in Culver City who resisted having her electric bike stolen, Culver City police said Friday.
The shooting happened Aug. 1 around 1 a.m. in the 4000 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, near Washington Place, according to the Culver City Police Department.
Officers dispatched to investigate the shooting located a woman suffering from a gunshot wound to her left forearm.
“Officers immediately rendered aid, applying a tourniquet to control heavy bleeding until Culver City Fire Department personnel arrived,” police said in a news release. “The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
Police say the woman had been approached by a group of suspects who attempted to steal her electric bicycle and she was shot when she resisted.
The suspects fled before officers arrived.
“Culver City Police Department investigators immediately launched an investigation and, with the assistance of the department’s automated license plate reader system, quickly identified the suspect vehicle and its driver,” police said.
The driver was identified as Navya Joy Mackey, 21. She has no known residence, but on Aug. 6 she was apprehended during a traffic stop.
“Detectives continued their relentless investigation, ultimately identifying the suspected shooter as Nya Cimone White, a 25-year-old female resident of Los Angeles,” police said. “After narrowing White’s location on Aug. 14, 2025, emergency response team personnel, a crisis negotiation team and special enforcement team officers served a search and arrest warrant,” according to the CCPD. “White was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Culver City Police Department Jail (on suspicion of) attempted murder.”
She was jailed on $2 million bail, police said.
“A search of the apartment yielded two assault rifles with high-capacity magazines, .40-caliber and 9mm ammunition, high-capacity pistol magazines and approximately one kilogram of an off-white powdery substance believed to be cocaine.”
Anyone with additional information related to the case was is urged to contact Culver City Police Department Investigations Lieutenant Ryan Thompson at 310-253-6302 or ryan.thompson@culvercity.org.