LOS ANGELES (AP) - A gunman who took dozens of people hostage at a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles was booked Sunday on suspicion of murder, after an employee was killed during the man's shootout with police, in what the supermarket chain described as the worst day in its history. Investigators believe Atkins shot his grandmother seven times and wounded another woman, who police initially described as his girlfriend, at his South Los Angeles home earlier Saturday afternoon. The man, who was being chased by police after he was suspected of repeatedly shooting his grandmother and another woman in a separate part of the city, crashed his car outside the Trader Joe’s, where he exchanged gunfire with police and entered the crowded store. After the suspect was in custody, police said they were still recovering people inside as some people had barricaded themselves in different locations throughout the store. He was shot in the arm and talked with police over the phone to negotiate a surrender, Mayor Eric Garcetti and police told a news conference. Devin Field, a writer for "Jimmy Kimmel Live," tweeted he was walking inside when a car crashed into the entrance and a man "got out shooting." The gunfire shattered the glass doors, he said, and the gunman ran into the store and “down the middle aisle.”

A woman at a supermarket across the street said people inside heard the gunfire and that everyone dived to the floor. Police did not provide any additional details on Sunday and it remained unclear whether she died from police gunfire or was killed by the gunman.
A gunman is arrested for one count of murder after killing a woman then taking dozens of people hostage at a Trader Joe's in Los Angeles, California.