{"id":31618,"date":"2024-08-31T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31618"},"modified":"2024-09-01T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:54:08","slug":"los-angeles-to-pay-9-5m-over-2018-death-of-woman-during-police-shootout-with-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31618","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles to pay $9.5M over 2018 death of woman during police shootout with gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman fatally shot by LA police<\/u><\/a> during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe\u2019s store six years ago, the family’s attorneys said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The father and brother of 27-year-old Melyda Corado<\/u><\/a> sued in November 2018, alleging civil rights violations and wrongful death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corado was an assistant manager at the store in the Silver Lake neighborhood on July 21, 2018, when a gunman, who was being chased by police, got into a shootout as he ran inside. Police said Corado was caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators said the gunman had shot his grandmother and kidnapped his girlfriend. He took dozens of people hostage in the store but later surrendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Gehlawat, an attorney for Corado’s family, said her death was preventable if the officers had followed their training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOfficers must look at the dangers posed to bystanders when using deadly force, and the officers here failed to do that,” Gehlawat said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City Attorney\u2019s Office didn’t immediately respond Friday to an email seeking comment on the settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Los Angeles Police Commission determined the officer who fired the fatal shot didn\u2019t violate police department policy<\/u><\/a>. A report said officers acted reasonably because they believed the gunman presented an immediate threat of injury or death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman fatally shot by LA police during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe\u2019s store six years ago, the family’s attorneys said Friday. The father and brother of 27-year-old Melyda Corado sued in November 2018, alleging civil rights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[30282,30283],"class_list":["post-31618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-firefight","tag-woman-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31620,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31618\/revisions\/31620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}