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77-Year-Old Man Arrested After Shooting Leaves Fire Captain Dead, 2 ...Injured at...Retirement Home
KTLA ^ | 05:17PM, June 25, 2018 | Kristina Bravo, Mark Mester, Christina Pascucci and Chip Yost,

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: california; florida; samething

1 posted on 06/25/2018 6:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t waste any time listening to Maxine.


2 posted on 06/25/2018 6:39:50 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BenLurkin

Old radical hippy? The math works.... born c. 1940.


3 posted on 06/25/2018 6:43:13 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: BenLurkin

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?


4 posted on 06/25/2018 6:43:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: BenLurkin

Sadly, guns and dementia don’t mix.


5 posted on 06/25/2018 6:49:36 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: BenLurkin

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.


6 posted on 06/25/2018 7:02:50 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BenLurkin
"After Shooting Leaves Fire Captain Dead"

"Grows old, Shoots Leaves Fire."

Another punctuation book.

7 posted on 06/25/2018 7:05:18 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: BenLurkin

Sad - I guess he won’t have to worry about paying for his retirement living anymore.


8 posted on 06/25/2018 7:11:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


9 posted on 06/25/2018 7:27:08 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: tinyowl

What county is Shooting Leaves in?


10 posted on 06/25/2018 7:28:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.)
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To: gundog

Last name KIM——Korean?

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11 posted on 06/25/2018 7:33:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Maybe.


12 posted on 06/25/2018 7:39:10 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: BipolarBob

Scattered leaves don’t lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOLV5fVf2G8


13 posted on 06/25/2018 7:40:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.”


14 posted on 06/25/2018 7:54:48 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: familyop

I went to a party in a multi-million dollar home in Long Beach Saturday night.


15 posted on 06/25/2018 10:41:52 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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