Authorities are searching for the shooter who shot and killed a woman at a shopping center in Hawthorne early Friday.

Deputies responded to the 11000 block of South Inglewood Avenue just before 2 a.m. to help the Hawthorne Police Department regarding a shooting death investigation. 

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. 

No further details were immediately available. 

 Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.