The Los Angeles police officers involved in the accidental killing of a Trader Joe’s manager when they opened fire on a man who was fleeing into the store after a car chase will not face criminal charges in the manager’s death, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Tuesday. Atkins crashed his car into a light pole outside the Trader Joe’s and fired three rounds at LAPD Officers Sinlen Tse and Sarah Winans, according to a memorandum made public Tuesday by the district attorney’s office. “The officers knew the Trader Joe’s store was filled with customers and employees. Tse and Winans returned fire in an attempt to stop Atkins from trying to injure or kill them or civilians in the Trader Joe’s,” the memorandum reads. They can fire eight shots into a Trader Joe’s and kill someone and they think that’s just how these things played out,” Albert Corado said Tuesday.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 16, 2020 01:02 UTC