Los Angeles police arrested a man outside a Trader Joe’s on Saturday evening, bringing an apparent end to an incident in which a man barricaded himself inside the grocery store for hours after running from police.
A woman inside the store was killed, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday at a news conference.
He did not identify her or say how she died.
The suspect was wounded in his left arm after exchanging shots with police, Garcetti told reporters.
The LA Fire Department said six people ranging from ages 12 to 81 were taken to the hospital following the incident.
All were in fair condition with no life-threatening injuries, a spokeswoman said.
“We have successfully taken the suspect into custody without incident,” Los Angeles police said on Twitter after the standoff ended.
About 40 people were inside the store in the Silver Lake neighborhood when the armed man entered, Police Chief Michael Moore said.
The suspect, 28, shot his grandmother and a younger female earlier in the day, police said.
Earlier, police had described the suspect as being in his late teens.
Events began with a shooting in the 1600 block of 32nd Street around 1:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) in which an elderly woman and a young woman were victims, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez told CNN.
Their conditions were not immediately known.
The suspect, described by police and witnesses as an African-American male, fled in his grandmother’s 2015 Toyota Camry, taking the younger victim with him.
He fired multiple rounds at officers during the police pursuit, Lopez said.
None of the officers was injured.
The chase ended when the suspect crashed the vehicle and ran into the busy store on Hyperion Avenue, Lopez said.
Some customers immediately ran out of the store and police surrounded the building.
Over the course of the three-hour standoff, several people walked out of the store with their hands up.
Some employees climbed out a back window on a chain ladder.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said a 20-year-old woman was transferred to a hospital in fair condition.
She was removed from a vehicle, not the inside of the store, Stewart said.
It was not immediately known whether that woman was the one from the original shooting.
Don Kohles, 91, told CNN he saw the car crash into a fire hydrant or a utility pole in front of the Trader Joe’s.
“Then this guy comes out of the car and starts running toward TJs,” Kohles said.
“I look behind me and there were two police guys coming with heavy guns, then boom boom boom boom, so I go into TJ’s and I see this guy and he comes in.
“And I see the two front glass doors shot out. I look around and I see a TJ’s employee laying on the ground, then all the help was laying on the ground,” he said.
The employee did not appear to be hurt, Kohles said.
“We all laid there for about a half an hour until LAPD came and got us out. They helped carry me across the parking lot and they sort of tossed me over a wall,” Kohles said.
Witness Devin Field said it appeared traffic prevented the suspect from escaping police when he crashed in front of the store.
The suspect had a pistol in his hand and “just started opening fire on the police behind him,” Field said.
When police returned fire, Field and others got down on the ground, he said.
“After he was inside the store for a little while they had me crawl away from the scene and run away around the corner,” Field said.
“He was very focused in getting out of the cops’ vision,” witness Miguel Trujillo said. “The exchange of bullets were all in an instant.”
Trade war a reality,’ French finance minister warns
A trade war is now a reality, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has warned as G20 ministers gather for a summit in Argentina.
The current US trade policy of imposing unilateral tariffs is based on “the law of the jungle,” he said.
But US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended the tariffs and urged the EU and China to open their markets to allow free competition.
Last week, US President Donald Trump described the EU as a foe on trade.
Mr. Trump later threatened to impose tariffs on all $500bn (£380bn) of Chinese goods entering the US in a growing trade row.
The US has large trade deficits with both the 28-member EU and China.
The two-day talks in Buenos Aires bring together finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s top 20 economies.
“World trade cannot base itself on the law of the jungle and the unilateral increase of tariffs is the law of the jungle,” Mr. Le Maire told AFP news agency.
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The law of the jungle, the law of the fittest, this cannot be the future of global trade relations.
“The law of the jungle will only turn out losers, it will weaken growth, threaten the most fragile countries and have disastrous political consequences,” Mr. Le Maire said.
He added that a trade war was now a reality, and that the EU could not consider negotiating a free trade deal with the US without America first withdrawing its tariffs on steel and aluminium.
The US treasury secretary backed President Trump’s stance on trade with the EU and China, saying they both need to open their markets.
“My message is pretty clear, it’s the same message the president delivered at the G7 (last month in Canada): if Europe believes in free trade, we’re ready to sign a free trade agreement with no tariffs, no non-tariff barriers and no subsidies. It has to be all three,” he said.
Turning to China, Mr. Mnuchin warned punitive tariffs against Beijing were “a realistic possibility.”
“We’ve been very clear with our objectives,” he added.
On June 1, the Trump administration introduced tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium imported into the US.
Mr. Trump argues that global oversupply of steel and aluminium, driven by China, threatens American producers, which are vital to the US.
The US president believes that if you have a trade deficit – if you import more than you export – you are losing out.
The EU later introduced retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods, including bourbon whiskey, Harley Davidson motorcycles and orange juice.
India scraps tampon tax after campaign
India has scrapped its 12% tax on all sanitary products following months of campaigning by activists.
The announcement comes a year after the government introduced the tax, known as GST, on all goods – including the 12% duty on menstrual hygiene products.
Campaigners argued the tax would make them even more unaffordable in a country where an estimated four out of five women and girls already have no access to items like sanitary pads.
The news was welcomed by campaigners.
Surbhi Singh, founder of Sachhi Saheli, a menstrual health awareness charity, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation: “This was a most-awaited and necessary step to help girls and women to stay in school, their jobs, to practise proper menstrual hygiene. This will help them to grow, to show their true potential.”
Periods are one of the leading reasons why girls drop out of education in India, while many others are forced to stay at home because they can’t access sanitary products.
Some women use cloth or rags – which, if not clean, can increase the risk of infections.
So, when the government branded tampons and sanitary pads a luxury item, with a 12% tax, it sparked an immediate campaign to get the measure revoked, including court challenges and petitions – one of which got more than 400,000 signatures.
It was known as Lahu ka Lagaan in Hindi, which translates as “blood tax.”
The announcement their campaign had been successful was made by India’s Interim Finance Minister, Piyush Goyal, who said he was “sure all mothers and sisters will be very happy to hear that sanitary pads are now 100% exempted from tax.”
Campaigner Amar Tulsiyan, founder of Niine Movement, went further, saying it was “a big win for everyone” in India.
Period poverty is not only a problem affecting women in India.
According to charity Plan International UK, one in 10 disadvantaged girls below the age of 21 cannot afford sanitary products.
The UK still has a 5% tax, despite campaigners calling for it to be scrapped.
