Posted on 06/25/2018 6:27:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Police detained a person of interest and recovered a weapon, Long Beach police Chief Robert Luna said. During a news conference later, investigators identified that person as Thomas Kim, a 77-year-old man who lived at the retirement home.
Kim was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder, two counts of attempted murder and arson, Luna stated. He was being held on $2 million bail.
A bomb squad responded after two devices deemed suspicious were found, Luna said. He did not specify where the devices were seen. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also on scene.
The Fire Department responded to a report of a fire alarm at 600 E. Fourth St. at around 3:49 a.m., Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin said. A retirement home called Covenant Manor was listed under that address.
Officials arrived at the multistory building and discovered windows blown out and an activated sprinkler, Heflin said.
The firefighters found the fire and extinguished it at 3:59 a.m., but they continued to assess the area due to reports of an explosion and the smell of gasoline.
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Didn’t waste any time listening to Maxine.
Old radical hippy? The math works.... born c. 1940.
Terrible. I’m assuming that the killer probably had some form of dementia and should have been on a locked ward. But where did he get the weapon?
Sadly, guns and dementia don’t mix.
Long Beach. Okay, that’s why. Whichever Long Beach it is, it’s a bad neighborhood. So it’s not the firearm that attacked someone. It was another old, crazed, hippie dope fiend. It’s pretty stupid of nursing homes to allow residents to have firearms anyway. They should have security guards instead.
"Grows old, Shoots Leaves Fire."
Another punctuation book.
Sad - I guess he won’t have to worry about paying for his retirement living anymore.
There is a reason, many reasons my wife, and I left Long Beach 31 years ago. Too bad we didn’t leave the damned State.
What county is Shooting Leaves in?
Last name KIM——Korean?
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Maybe.
45 year old Fire Captain.Wife 2 children.Firemen are already wearing 100 pounds to a fire,is a vest required also?
“At around 8 a.m., a “last call” was issued over officials’ communication system after Rosa did not respond to a roll call. The message signed off with a traditional Irish blessing: “May the sun shine upon his path, may wind always be at his back and may the Lord hold him in the palm of his hands until we meet again.”
I went to a party in a multi-million dollar home in Long Beach Saturday night.
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