Gunman who took hostages and opened fire in a Trader Joe’s was feuding with his grandmother

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  • A gunman who shot his grandmother and took hostages inside a Trader Joe’s on Saturday was feuding with his grandmother prior to the incident. 
  • A relative told the Associated Press that suspect Gene Evin Atkins argued with his grandmother over his girlfriend staying at his grandmother’s house. 
  • Atkins shot his grandmother several times and wounded his girlfriend, before stealing his grandmother’s car and taking hostages at a local Trader Joe’s supermarket, where an employee was killed.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A feud between a man and his grandmother over his girlfriend staying at the grandmother’s home exploded into violence that ultimately led to him taking dozens of people hostage inside a Los Angeles supermarket, a relative said Sunday.

Investigators believe Gene Evin Atkins, 28, shot his grandmother several times and wounded his girlfriend at their South Los Angeles home on Saturday afternoon before he led police on a chase, while exchanging gunfire with officers, crashed into a pole outside the Trader Joe’s in the city’s Silver Lake section and ran inside.

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