A Trader Joe’s employee from the Cerritos, Calif., store posts a message at a makeshift memorial of flowers, candles and notes growing on the sidewalk outside the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s store in Los Angeles, Monday, July 23, 2018. Two days earlier, Trader Joe’s employee Melyda Corado was shot and killed at the store in a gunfight between a gunman and police. Grieving family members, co-workers and customers on Sunday remembered Corado as lively, hardworking and always smiling. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Two Los Angeles police officers who engaged in a 2018 gunfight with a suspect outside a Silver Lake Trader Joe's market, with a police bullet striking and killing an assistant store manager, acted lawfully and will not be charged with a crime, according to a report released Tuesday by the District Attorney's Office.
The prosecution assessment of the police shooting of Melyda Corado, however, is dated Nov. 30, about a week prior to new District Attorney George Gascon being sworn into office.
It was not immediately clear if Gascon -- who has vowed to take a harder stance on law enforcement shootings -- plans to review the case.
Corado was struck by a round fired by an LAPD officer during the shootout, which occurred after a man wanted in a South Los Angeles shooting crashed into a pole outside the store at the end of a pursuit on July 21, 2018.
