Woman Shot While Fighting Off Electric-Bike Robbers, 2 Arrested: Culver City Police

CULVER CITY, CA — Two women have been arrested in connection to the shooting of a woman who fought back when a group of people attempted to steal her electric bike, Culver City police said Friday.

The shooting occurred Aug. 1 at around 1 a.m. on the 4000 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, near Washington Place. Responding officers found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound to her forearm, according to the Culver City Police Department.

The woman had been approached by a group of people who attempted other steal her bike. She was shot when she resisted. The suspects fled before officers arrived, police said.

"Officers immediately rendered aid, applying a tourniquet to control heavy bleeding until Culver City Fire Department personnel arrived," police said in a release. "The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries."

With the help of the city's automated license plate reader system, officers were able to quickly identify a suspect vehicle and its driver: Navya Joy Mackey, 21, police said.

On Aug. 6, she was apprehended during a traffic stop, police said.

The investigation continued and police identified the suspected shooter as Nya Cimone White, 25, 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," police said.

White was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and 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," police said.