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LA police arrest suspect after deadly shop siege | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Los Angeles police have arrested a suspect who earlier barricaded himself in a shop with about 40 people inside. | 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. | |
The suspect earlier fired shots as police pursued his car. He crashed the car and ran inside the shop. The chase began after he had shot two women. | |
The suspect, who is believed to a 28-year-old African-American, gave himself up after crisis negotiations with police in the Silverlake area, the LAPD said. | |
The suspect had asked that he put handcuffs on himself before leaving the shop, the LAPD said. He had an arm injury. | |
A young woman inside Trader Joe's was shot and killed by the suspect, police said. She has not been identified. | |
"I regret to inform you that there is one fatality that occurred inside, of a woman," Mayor Eric Garcetti said. | |
Earlier, terrified shoppers and staff were seen fleeing in panic - some jumping from windows, others climbing down a rope ladder. | |
Helicopter news footage showed two children being carried to safety by heavily armed police officers. | |
The suspect also released some people himself, the police said. | |
Eyewitness Don Kohles said he saw the car the suspect was driving crash into what was a fire hydrant or a utility pole. | |
"Then this guy comes out of the car and starts running toward TJs," Mr Kohles told CNN. | |
"I look behind me and there were two police guys coming with heavy guns, then boom boom boom boom, so I go into TJ's and I see this guy and he comes in. | |
"And I see the two front glass doors shot out. I look around and I see a TJ's employee laying on the ground. | |
"We all laid there for about a half-an-hour until LAPD came and got us out. They helped carry me across the parking lot and they sort of tossed me over a wall," Mr Kohles added. | |
During the stand-off, a woman was taken from the crashed car and transported to a local hospital. | |
She is believed to have been injured and forced into the vehicle after the gunman shot his grandmother and took her car. | |
The grandmother, shot a number of times, was in a critical condition, police said. | |
US President Donald Trump tweeted that he was watching the situation "very closely". | US President Donald Trump tweeted that he was watching the situation "very closely". |