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One dead, police arrest shooting suspect who was barricaded US supermarket

LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An armed suspect who allegedly shot
his grandmother and another person barricaded himself in a supermarket and
then shot a woman dead in the US city of Los Angeles before being taken into
custody on Saturday, police said.

“A male suspect … become involved in a family dispute which resulted in
him shooting his grandmother and a female at the scene,” police Sergeant
Barry Montgomery told journalists.

“That suspect fled the location in his grandmother’s vehicle, taking that
female victim with him,” and eventually entered a Trader Joe’s supermarket
following an “officer involved shooting,” he said.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said one woman was shot in the store and later declared
dead at the site.

“I regret to inform you that there is one fatality that occurred inside,
of a woman,” Garcetti said, without further identifying the woman.

The suspect barricaded himself inside the supermarket with an unknown
number of people, but was taken into custody “without incident,” according to
police.

“We have successfully taken the suspect into custody without incident. The
situation remains fluid as officers move forward clearing the location,” the
Los Angeles Police Department wrote on its official Twitter account

US President Donald Trump had earlier tweeted that he was “watching Los
Angeles possible hostage situation very closely.”

Devin Field, a man who said he was walking into the store when the incident
unfolded, described his experience in a series of tweets.

“I was walking in when a car crashed running from the police crashed into
street lamp in front of the entrance. Gunman got out and started shooting at
the cops. I hid behind a retaining wall with three cops until they had me
crawl out,” wrote Field, whose Twitter account identifies him as a writer for
the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV show.

“Gunman walked in shooting. He went into the back and took hostages.
Employees snuck out through back emergency exits. Employee says blood was all
over the floor, unclear from where,” he wrote.

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