[Blue Jays]

"...friendly fire..."

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Very tragic and extremely unfortunate. :-(

[JudyinCanada]

Very sad. Very, very sad.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Prayers for the officer who fired. Likely this could not have been avoided, and he is going to have to live with it for the rest of his life.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So sad...from another source. Really brings tears to my eyes.

Melyda Corado, 27, had worked at the grocery store for four years and was there Saturday when a deranged, still-unidentified man — who’d just led police on a car chase — crashed into a utility pole in front of the supermarket and ran inside brandishing his weapon.

“I’m sad to say she didn’t make it. My baby sister. My world,” tweeted Albert Corado, the woman’s brother, who had posted asking people to help him locate Melyda as the three-hour hostage situation unfolded inside the supermarket.

“She was the person I loved the most in the world. She was never anyone but herself for better or worse, she was herself,” he told CNN.

[Bonemaker]

Spray but don’t pray.

[surroundedbyblue]

Oh no. How absolutely heartbreaking.

[TonyM]

I hate to say it but she had been the perp she would have never been hit. I am amazed at the accounts of cops firing hundreds of rounds and never hitting what they are shooting at. They use a spray and pray method that this time wound up killing an innocent. Cops need to have more weapons training on how to aim at their target.

[MplsSteve]

I’m just surprised this didn’t happen in Florida. A story like this has “Florida LEO’s” all over it.

[rednesss]

Has happened more than once in California. If you or I did this, we’d be in prison still.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stockton-bank-robbery-hostage-killed-police-gunfire-20140811-story.html

[SteveH]

it could have been spray and pray but it could also have been a split second calculated risk if the perp was firing at police out in the open and he could also have hit innocent bystanders. the manager victim would have naturally been drawn to the source of the commotion at the front of the store at the beginning, resulting in her having been at the wrong place at the wrong time. Very unfortunate all around.

[Yaelle]

This is what I was afraid of.

This shooter has not killed ANYONE. As monstrous as he was. If Grandma pulls through, he didn’t murder at all.

And now this poor young woman’s life is gone. And I have to pony up to pay millions because some stupid cop shot into an open trader joe’s store. I love cops but that was effing DUMB.

[SteveH]

I would be imho the last guy to defend police in a bad shoot. however, i also don’t think it is realistic to expect zero friendly fire fatalities in war or in police actions. fr cop bashers: what am i missing?

[catbertz]

I half expected and feared this conclusion. Very very sad. The bad guy will be charged for this death, which is fine. He tried to kill people, and risked other’s lives to protect his own.

The cop that shot her will carry this mark on their conscience for life.

[EdnaMode]

Such a tragedy.