{"id":482302,"date":"2010-03-28T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec4821cf970b"},"modified":"2010-03-28T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:46:15","slug":"man-wielding-an-ax-in-inglewood-grocery-store-is-fatally-shot-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/482302","title":{"rendered":"Man wielding an ax in Inglewood grocery store is fatally shot by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inglewood police fatally shot a man in a grocery store Saturday after he lunged at an officer with an ax, authorities say.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Officers arrived at City Farm Market in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/search\/?d=2&amp;address=10800+Prairie%2C+Inglewood\">10800 block of Prairie Avenue<\/a> about 9:30 p.m. after employees reported that a man was in the store threatening people with a knife, according to a Inglewood Police Department statement. Upon arrival, officers were informed that the man had been stabbing himself and was hiding on the premises. Following a trail of blood through the store, the officers arrived at a walk-in refrigerator.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The suspect exited the refrigerator holding an ax that he had found inside and made a movement toward an officer, the statement said. Two officers shot the man multiple times, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The officers have been identified as Sgt. John Knapp, a 28-year veteran of the department, and Sgt. Greg Held, a nine-year veteran of the department. Investigations will be conducted by Inglewood police and the Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. County coroner&#8217;s office has not confirmed the identity of the man. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Corina Knoll<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide-report\/map\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maptease\" class=\"asset asset-image  at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b-640wi\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn about more than <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/circumstance\/officer-involved-shooting\/\">100 fatal officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County since January 2007<\/a>, including at least seven others in Inglewood on The Times&#8217; interactive Homicide Report. In that time period, coroner&#8217;s officials have reported at least <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/neighborhood\/inglewood\/\">58 homicides in Inglewood.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inglewood police fatally shot a man in a grocery store Saturday after he lunged at an officer with an ax, authorities say.Officers arrived at City Farm Market in the 10800 block of Prairie Avenue about 9:30 p.m. after employees reported that a man was in the store threatening people with a knife, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}