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		</div><h6 id="taboola-top-carousel-thumbnails" class="taboola" data-taboolaposition="beforeArticle"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>28-year-old gunman who held 50 people hostage in an Los Angeles Trader Joe&#8217;s store on Saturday started by &#8216;shooting his grandmother and girlfriend&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The terrifying siege ended nearly three hours later when the suspect stepped out of the store, cuffed hands held high, surrounded by hostages &#8211; he had requested handcuffs from officers</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He allegedly killed one store employee suspect, but was shot in his left arm, during a shootout with police </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The suspect was being chased by police when he fled into a Trader Joe&#8217;s after firing at officers </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police helped customers, employees sneak out of store, some were released </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Store manager Melyda Corado, a four-year employee at the store was killed in the hostage situation</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The suspect is believed to have shot his grandmother and held girlfriend hostage, but w</strong></span><b><span style="color: #000000;">hen he crashed his car after police pursuit, he shot her and fled into the sho</span></b><span style="color: #000000;">p </span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The store manager was shot dead when a 28-year-old man stormed a Trader Joe&#8217;s in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon and held hostages for three hours before surrendering to police.<br />
The suspect, who is 28 years old, allegedly shot his grandmother as many as seven times before holding as many as 50 people in a Trader Joe&#8217;s hostage.<br />
The manager, Mely Corado, was killed early into the hostage situation, police told reporters on Saturday night, and was the only fatality of the day. Mely had worked at Trader Joe&#8217;s since 2014.<br />
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<div class="mh-excerpt"><strong>Gunman ‘takes hce.ostages and opens fire’ inside a Trader Joe’s in Los Angeles after he was chased by cops for ‘shooting his girlfriend and</strong> <a title="Gunman on the run after ‘shooting his girlfriend and grandmother, takes hostages and opens fire’ inside a Trader Joe’s in Los Angeles – Gunman gives himself up" href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/07/21/gunman-on-the-run-after-shooting-his-girlfriend-and-grandmother-takes-hostages-and-opens-fire-inside-a-trader-joes-in-los-angeles/">[&#8230;]</a></div>
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LAPD sources told <a class="class" href="http://abc7.com/silver-lake-trader-joes-barricade-1-dead-suspect-in-custody/3801415/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ABC7</a> Mely was the store manager.<br />
The gunman allegedly shot his grandmother &#8216;up to seven times&#8217; before fleeing in her car with a woman believed to be his girlfriend, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said.<br />
Garcetti said the suspect got into an argument with his grandmother about 1.30pm, and the woman believed to be his girlfriend, who was &#8216;forcibly taken&#8217; with him, was also injured but is expected to survive.<br />
The man&#8217;s grandmother was transported to hospital in &#8216;grave condition&#8217;, has undergone several surgeries and remains in a critical condition, LAPD said.</p>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class="alignnone wp-image-296577" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trader-Joe-gunman-gives-himself-up.jpg" alt="Trader Joe gunman gives himself up.JPG" width="681" height="441" /><strong>Trader Joe shooting ended the siege when he steps out surrounded by hostages, after first cuffing himself</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296576" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Gunman-takes-hostages-and-opens-fire-inside-a-Trader-Joes-in-Los-Angeles-12.jpg" alt="Gunman 'takes hostages and opens fire' inside a Trader Joe's in Los Angeles 12.JPG" width="666" height="533" /><strong>The suspect, who is 28 years old, allegedly shot his grandmother as many as seven times before holding as many as 50 people in a Trader Joe&#8217;s store hostage. The suspect then stormed the supermarket on Saturday and took dozens of hostages. He is seen being treated for a gunshot wound to his left arm, sustained in a shootout with</strong> <strong>police</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption"><strong>Apparently injured young victim is taken away from the store in a wheelchair with a bandage on their knee </strong></p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">When the man fled the scene of the first alleged shooting, police caught up to him, and he shot at officers multiple times. Police chased him from Hollywood into Silverlake, where he crashed outside the shop, shot his girlfriend, and ran inside.<br />
The vehicle was seen wrapped around a pole and police rescued the 20-year-old woman left inside. Her injuries have not been confirmed, but are believed to include a gunshot wound, <a class="class" href="https://ktla.com/on-air/live-streaming/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">KTLA </a><a class="class" href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/Pursuit-Ends-With-gunshots-at-Trader-Joe-in-Silverlake-488810971.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand&;__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> </a>reported.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Law enforcement sources told the<a class="class" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trader-joe-silver-lake-20180721-story.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> Los Angeles Times</a> the woman is his girlfriend, and he had fired at officers, who fired back, before he ran inside the supermarket.<br />
LAPD told <a class="class" href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/21/reports-of-possible-active-shooter-at-silver-lake-trader-joes/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">KCAL </a>the man had shot his grandmother and girlfriend about 1.30pm, before fleeing the Hollywood scene in a 2015 Toyota Camry and arriving at the supermarket before 3.30pm<br />
When he did surrender to police just after 6.30pm, the man emerged with handcuffs on and with four hostages, as was previously agreed to in negotiations between the man and LAPD, <a class="class" href="http://abc7.com/barricaded-armed-suspect-customers-inside-silver-lake-trader-joes/3801415/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ABC </a>reported.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong>The suspect&#8217;s car, which he crashed into a street pole in front of the store before he ran inside, took hostages and barricaded himself inside </strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Law enforcement spent hours working to evacuate employees and customers, including small children, with at least one person seen fleeing with injuries.<br />
While many were seen fleeing from the supermarket, it is believed there were still as many as 30 people inside just after 4pm.<br />
Mayor Garcetti confirmed to reporters the man had been in contact with LAPD during the hostage situation, and initially had 40-50 customers and employees in the store with him.<br />
&#8216;A slow and steady stream of people who had hidden and were helped by LAPD to escape, or people who were released by the hostage taker [were seen leaving the store],&#8217; he said.<br />
The gunman was injured in his left arm during his shootout with police, and NBC reported towards the end of the hostage situation, people he had forcibly taken were helping him with his wounds.<br />
Devin Field said on <a class="class" href="https://twitter.com/thatdevinfield" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter </a>he was about to enter the Trader Joe&#8217;s when the man&#8217;s car crashed into a street lamp outside.<br />
&#8216;I was walking in when he crashed into the entrance and got out shooting,&#8217; he said.<br />
&#8216;I ducked behind the four-foot retaining wall in the parking lot and three LAPD officers ran over, knelt behind it right next to me and opened fire.&#8217;<br />
Field says others who had been evacuated said the gunman &#8216;walked in shooting&#8217;, demanded a jumper and a phone, and moved the remaining hostages to the back of the store.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296584" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Police-try-to-view-situation-inside-Trader-Joes-during-hostage-situation.jpg" alt="Police try to view situation inside Trader Joe's during hostage situation.JPG" width="686" height="500" />Police try to get a read on the situation inside the store using mirrors held up at a shot-out window during the tense hostage situation yesterday</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">An employee told him there was &#8216;blood all over the floor&#8217;, but they did not know where it&#8217;d come from. He says another employee said one Trader Joe&#8217;s worker was shot in the arm.<br />
Don Kohles , 91, was also walking into the Trader Joe’s when the suspect crashed his car into the street pole.<br />
He says police fired at the male driver and shattered the store’s glass doors.People outside the store and others inside took cover and laid on the floor as the suspect ran inside.<br />
He says the man ran toward the back of the store and yelled at people inside but he never heard any more gunshots.<br />
The elderly man said he was terrified and others around him were sobbing. After about 30 minutes, he says police came him and rushed them outside.</div>
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<p>The gunman exchanged fire with police and was struck in his left arm before running inside the store, police said.</p>
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<p>Between 40 and 50 others were trapped inside, and a three-hour hostage negotiation ensued. During that time, the suspect allowed some to leave while others sneaked out. Some crawled out of windows.</p>
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<p>The shooter&#8217;s grandmother was in critical condition after undergoing surgery, according to Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore. The alleged girlfriend earlier shot by the gunman, suffered a relatively minor head wound and was in good condition, he said.</p>
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Suspect, 28, who shot his girlfriend and grandmother seven times, before holding a 50 people in a Trader Joe’s hostage, cuffs himself and walks out of LA store – Ending terrifying siege that left the store manager woman dead
