Los Angeles to pay $9.5M over police shootout at Trader Joe's that left assistant manager dead
The city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman fatally shot by L.A. police during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe’s store six years ago, the family’s attorneys said Friday.
LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman fatally shot by L.A. police during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe’s 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 violations and wrongful death.
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.
Investigators said the gunman had shot his grandmother and kidnapped his girlfriend. He took dozens of people hostage in the store but later surrendered.
Neil Gehlawat, an attorney for Corado’s family, said her death was preventable if the officers had followed their training.
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