Gunfire hits Tustin Legacy office campus; no one is hurt and the shooter is still unknown

The shooter got away, and no arrests have been reported. Police have not said publicly why anyone would shoot at an office building in the middle of a weekday afternoon. As the first detailed account put it, it is unclear what prompted the shooting⁠1.

Tustin police officers who responded found multiple bullet holes in the building's windows across several floors and determined that nobody had been struck, according to County News Service, which cited a police spokesman⁠1. The same report said initial accounts described a gunman who drove up near the building, opened fire and then fled. That drive-by version comes only from those initial reports. Police have not confirmed it in any statement we have found, and they have released no description of the shooter, no vehicle make, color or plate, and no persons of interest⁠1.

That is very little to go on. It is still possible that a specific business or a specific person was the target, or neither. Nothing published so far points to any of these.

The basic facts hold up across the coverage: an office building was hit, nobody was hurt, the shooter left, and there is no arrest. The details do not. NBC Los Angeles reported that Tustin police said officers responded at about 1:10 p.m.⁠2. Telemundo 52 also put the time at about 1:10 p.m., citing Tustin police⁠11. County News Service gave about 2:00 p.m., also citing a police spokesman⁠1. The 1:10 figure has two outlets behind it and is the better-supported time for now. Still, no single police statement has settled the question.

Accounts of how much was hit also differ. County News Service described one commercial office building with damage on several floors⁠1. NBC Los Angeles reported that investigators said at least one building was struck, and that five to eight shell casings were found nearby⁠2. Telemundo 52's Spanish-language report says several buildings were hit⁠11. The street name varies too: some reports say the 1700 block of Flight, and NBC calls it a commercial office complex on Flight Way⁠1⁠2.

These differences are not trivial. One building hit on several floors suggests someone aimed at a particular structure. Several buildings hit suggests something wider and less controlled. A casing count tells you roughly how many shots were fired, not how many hit anything. Until Tustin police put out a full account, all three versions should be read as provisional. We could not find a full Tustin police statement or press release on the incident.

The campus is a large, busy workplace. Lincoln Property Company and Alcion Ventures developed it. It covers almost 372,000 square feet of offices, plus the 12,000-square-foot Mess Hall Market food hall and a 6,000-square-foot conference center⁠3. In a late-2025 recapitalization, Santa Monica-based Glendon Capital Management took a majority stake. Lincoln reinvested and stayed on as property and asset manager⁠8⁠5. At that point the campus had about 30 tenants and was 85 percent occupied⁠5.

The building at 1700 Flight Way alone is four stories and about 145,417 square feet. A commercial lease database lists Virgin Galactic and Happy Money as notable tenants there, but that data comes from lease comparisons dated 2019 to 2021 and may be out of date⁠4. Virgin Galactic expanded its Tustin headquarters at Flight to 110,226 square feet in 2022⁠6. ChromaDex signed a lease on the campus in November 2021⁠7. In 2023, Sabra Health Care REIT announced it would move its headquarters to a 13,000-square-foot freestanding building there⁠9. The block also includes other addresses, such as 1730 Flight Way, which has been listed with office space available⁠10.

The list shows who works on the campus. It does not show who was targeted. Police have not said which building number on the block was hit. Nothing published links the shooting to any tenant, and nobody should read the presence of a well-known company on the campus as a clue.

For now, the facts are limited. Someone fired repeatedly into an office campus on a weekday afternoon and drove or walked away, and police have not said who it was or why. We will update this story when Tustin police release more information.