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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The latest on a man who took clients and employees hostage to a Trader Joe in Los Angeles (all local time):
14:55
A quarrel between a man and her Charlene Egland told The Associated Press on Sunday that her cousin, Gene Evin Atkins, had been fighting with his grandmother because of his girlfriend who lived in her. Authorities say that Atkins shot his grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Madison, seven times and injured his girlfriend.
Egland says that Madison asked Atkins to turn off the television before she heard a series of shots at home. Police said that Atkins stole his grandmother's car and drove the police in pursuit before crashing in front of a Joe Trader's in Silver Lake.
He then ran into the store and took hostages for a period of three hours
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12:30 pm
Trader Joe's says that a store in Los Angeles where an armed man took hostages for three hours and that one employee died will remain closed for the According to a spokesman for the company, Kenya Friend-Daniels, the trader Joe wants to give his employees time to deal the events of yesterday.
Employee Melyda Corado was killed on Saturday while Gene Evin, 28-year-old Atkins, who was being sued by police, ran away into the supermarket and took hostages
Friend-Daniel says that Saturday was the "saddest day in the history of Trader Joe."
She believes that the family of Corado Atkins suspected Atkins of shooting his grandmother seven times and injuring another woman before senior officers pursued the lawsuit.
He was detained on Sunday on suspicion of murder.
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11:20
Coroner's authorities identified a woman who was fatally injured when an armed man sued by Los Angeles police ran into a supermarket and took hostages.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office identified Sunday woman as 27-year-old Melyda Corado.
Corado's brother, Albert Corado, said on Twitter that his sister was "my world".
Police say 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins took hostages for three hours Trader Joe's in the Silver Lake district of the city Saturday
Authorities say earlier in the day that Atkins shot his grandmother seven times and injured another woman, whom he forced to get into a car. He then fled with police pursuing him across the city, exchanging shots.
Atkins was charged with murder on Sunday and detained for $ 2 million bail. An armed officer who took hostages inside a Los Angeles supermarket was charged with murder.
Agent Drake Madison, a police spokesman, says Gene Evin Atkins, 28, was detained Sunday. Atkins surrendered after three hours of clash at a Trader Joe Saturday in the Silver Lake neighborhood.
Authorities said Saturday that he had fired seven times at his grandmother and injured another woman, whom he had driven into a car. He then fled with officers chasing him across the city, exchanging gunshots.
The lawsuit ended in the fact that Atkins crushed outside the store and headed inland.
A woman was shot. Atkins' grandmother was hospitalized in critical condition. The police had no update on his condition
A message left at a registered number for Atkins was not returned immediately.
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5:45 am
Police say that she is trying to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and then run into a supermarket in Los Angeles. Angeles busy and hold dozens of people hostage for hours.
A woman was shot when the shooter ran Saturday in the Trader Joe supermarket in the Silver Lake section. but no hostages were seriously injured before handcuffing themselves and surrendering themselves to the police. The grandmother was hospitalized in critical condition on Sunday
. Police say that the man fired seven times at his grandmother and wounded another woman, which he forced to get into a car. They say that they chased the car and exchanged gunfire with the man, who crashed into a pole in front of the supermarket and ran to the inside.
Frightened customers and workers covered the glass doors of the store. 19659042]
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