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LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« on: July 22, 2018, 11:09:41 am »
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LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege

Los Angeles police have arrested a suspect who earlier barricaded himself in a shop with about 40 people inside.

"We have successfully taken the suspect into custody without incident," the LAPD tweeted after a three-hour siege.

People were seen fleeing the Trader Joe's supermarket, some jumping from windows. One woman was killed.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44914323

Big story, I'm not sure anyone posted it. One person killed. It sounds like a lot could have been.
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Re: LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2018, 12:26:08 pm »
A Freeper(Bunnyslippers) was a hostage
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Re: LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2018, 12:29:28 pm »
Quote from: Restored on July 22, 2018, 12:26:08 pm
A Freeper(Bunnyslippers) was a hostage
I just read her account on FB (we "friended" many years ago and I didn't know her FR name). Scary.
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Re: LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2018, 07:02:11 pm »
Woman killed in Trader Joe’s standoff was young store manager
By Tamar Lapin
July 22, 2018 | 9:22am

The woman shot to death in a Los Angeles Trader Joe’s was the store’s manager, according to reports.

Melyda Corado, 27, had worked at the grocery store for four years and was there Saturday when a deranged, still-unidentified man — who’d just led police on a car chase — crashed into a utility pole in front of the supermarket and ran inside brandishing his weapon.  ...


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Re: LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2018, 07:04:14 pm »
Rest In Peace Melyda Corado.
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Re: LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2018, 10:07:05 am »
The latest news on this is that a bullet from the police killed this woman. Suspect named as well below....that, I didn't know either.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lapd-officer-fired-bullet-that-killed-trader-joes-employee-during-weekend-standoff-chief-says/ar-AAAlZ2e?OCID=ansmsnnews11

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LA chief says police, not gunman, fired fatal shot at market
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A supermarket worker was killed by a bullet fired by Los Angeles police — not the gunman they were trying to stop — the city's police chief acknowledged Tuesday, defending the decision to use deadly force as an attempt to stop what officers feared could become a mass shooting.

The suspect, Gene Evin Atkins, 28, already had shot his grandmother, kidnapped his girlfriend and shot at officers Saturday afternoon as they chased his car and then as he ran into the Trader Joe's in the city's congested Silver Lake neighborhood, according to police.

After exchanging gunfire with police, Atkins ran into the store and took about 40 people hostage, police said.

Read more at: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-bullet-killed-store-employee-la-gunbattle-56782309

The suspect has taken a ton of hostages, what are the police suppose to do? We will find out more.
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