126:. 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins, armed and fleeing police, crashed into a utility pole and ran into the nearby store. He fired at two pursuing police officers during the pursuit and after the crash; the two officers returned fire in Atkins's direction, hitting and killing a store employee, Melyda Corado, and hitting Atkins in the left arm. After escaping into Trader Joe's, Atkins barricaded himself and the rest of the store's patrons and employees inside the store. By the end of the incident, Atkins was arrested for various criminal felonies.
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quarreling with his grandmother over his live-in girlfriend. The grandmother did not want her living in the home. Atkins shot his grandmother and his girlfriend around 1:30 pm on July 21, then forced his girlfriend, who was bleeding from the gunshot wound, into his grandmother's car and drove off. Several people reported the incident and
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Atkins emerged from his crashed car and fired three additional shots at the police who were pursuing him before running into the store. Two officers fired eight total shots (Tse five, Winans three) in Atkins direction, hitting and killing store employee Melyda Corado, according to LAPD police chief
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The shootings began on the evening of July 20, when Atkins' cousin spotted Atkins sleeping in his grandmother's home on 32nd Street near Long Beach Avenue with a gun under his pillow. According to a cousin of Atkins, Atkins, who had lived with his grandmother since he was a young child, had been
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