Probably Lincoln shot, Titanic, etc.
The Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday that one of its officers fired the bullet that struck and killed a Trader Joe’s employee in the frantic moments they exchanged gunfire with a suspect in an attempted murder case over the weekend.
“On behalf of myself and the rest of the Department, I want to express my deepest condolences and sympathy to her family and everyone that knew her,” Chief Michel Moore said of the store manager, Melyda Corado, 27. “I know that it’s every officer’s worst nightmare to hurt an innocent bystander during a violent engagement. I spoke with the officers this morning — they’re devastated. They were devastated in the immediate aftermath of this event.”
Moore said that the officer who fired the shot that killed Corado was with a partner chasing suspect Gene Atkins, who had allegedly shot his grandmother hours earlier and had repeatedly fired on pursuing officers chasing him through Hollywood and Silver Lake. The LAPD has not identfied the officer who fired the shot that killed Corado.
Guess the race.
Gene Evin Atkins, 28, had been arguing with his grandmother “on and off for about two or three weeks” before things allegedly came to a head Saturday, according to Egland.
Investigators believe Atkins was at her South LA home with his girlfriend when he attempted to kill the 76-year-old, identified by cops as Mary Elizabeth Madison.
“Something triggered his mind and he just shot her,” Egland told the LA Times on Sunday.
“It’s just devastating. I can’t believe it,” she said, noting how Madison “raised him.”
Egland was at the home when Atkins allegedly shot his grandmother, and recalled what the great-grandmother told him right before he pulled the trigger.
“He needs to turn some of them TVs off,” Madison said, according to Egland.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trader-joe-shooting-20180724-story.htmlhttp://nypost.com/2018/07/22/trader-joes-shooting-suspect-was-feuding-with-grandma
