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Los Angeles police surrounded a Trader Joe’s in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Hollywood Saturday afternoon after a suspect crashed his vehicle, leaped out and ran into the grocery store. A woman inside the Trader Joe’s was killed after an armed man barricaded himself inside the store, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday at a news conference held after the suspect surrendered to police.
Los Angeles police handcuffed a man outside a Trader Joe’s on Saturday evening, bringing an end to the hostage standoff situation.
“We have successfully taken the suspect into custody without incident,” Los Angeles police said on Twitter.
#BREAKING: LAPD has a man in custody. Officers have made their way inside the #TraderJoes. It looks like the situation is over. #SilverLake @NBCLA
Los Angeles police Asst. Chief Robert Arcos said a gunman barricaded himself in the store with some civilians for the last few hours. Other law enforcement sources said the bystanders and the gunman appeared to be in different parts of the store, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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According to the Associated Press, “Police believe a man involved in a standoff with officers at a Los Angeles supermarket shot his grandmother and girlfriend before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store.”
Aerial coverage from a helicopter showed officers carrying a person who appeared to be injured to a vehicle and people climbing out of a store window and down a ladder,” CNN reports. There was no word on the condition of the woman the suspect shot, and it is unclear if the TV footage of police tending to a woman is the same victim or not.
Police pulled a woman from the car that led police on a chase starting in the Hollywood area. The driver barricaded himself inside a Trader Joes’ in Silver Lake, with multiple shots being fired at the scene. Live updates: t.co/TxoO6jcdJA
According to NBC Los Angeles the “LAPD was tactically working to rescue employees and suspects trapped inside. Both customers and workers could be seen running from the store to safety, but at least one customer was taken out of the store with injuries and appeared to require immediate medical attention.”
President Trump tweeted that he was “watching [the] Lost Angeles possible hostage situation very closely.”
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