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Woman shoots, kills groping suspect inside Compton beauty supply store
KTLA ^ | October 20, 2025 | Jose Dubose

Posted on 11/01/2025 7:15:31 PM PDT by TheDon

An investigation is underway after a customer shot and killed a man inside a Compton store who was reportedly threatening customers after groping a female victim, officials announced.

The Oct. 19 incident, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, occurred just before 3:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Alondra Boulevard, near the intersection of Poinsettia Avenue.

A preliminary investigation revealed that an unidentified man followed a female customer into a beauty supply store and groped her, prompting employees at the establishment to demand he leave the premises.

“The male became increasingly verbally assaultive toward employees and customers, “the release noted. “He started throwing and damaging merchandise in the store. The incident escalated rapidly.”

While the man was reportedly threatening to kill and harm customers and employees, witnesses told investigators that they believed he was armed with a knife.

“A second customer in the store, fearing for the store employees, herself and other customers, retrieved a personal firearm and fired a warning at the male,” investigators said. “The male turned toward that customer, fearing she was going to be attacked, fired a second shot striking the male.”

L.A. deputies and personnel with the Compton Fire Department responded to the scene where the man was pronounced dead by paramedics.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; compton; crime; losangeles
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The customer prevented further crimes from this perp, permanently.
1 posted on 11/01/2025 7:15:31 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Good riddance!


2 posted on 11/01/2025 7:17:37 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: TheDon

Fast approaching threat now eliminated!
Mission accomplished.


3 posted on 11/01/2025 7:20:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TheDon

An extreme Liberal Reporter would have stupidly printed the female shooter’s name in the column, maybe even “accidentally” included the street she lives on.


4 posted on 11/01/2025 7:24:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TheDon

Compton??

Not exactly Trump territory.


5 posted on 11/01/2025 7:25:38 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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The customer prevented further crimes from this perp, permanently...

...with a single well-targeted shot!

6 posted on 11/01/2025 7:28:40 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: TheDon

In Only in America (1958) the humorist Harry Golden wrote that a man was finally caught by police for groping various women in supermarkets and stores in New York City.

One woman was glad and told a reporter: “They should castrate him or give him cancer.”


7 posted on 11/01/2025 7:29:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TheDon

Good shot!......................


8 posted on 11/01/2025 7:31:00 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: doorgunner69

Bush family lived there once


9 posted on 11/01/2025 7:33:15 PM PDT by al baby (Whoopie Cushion Goldberg )
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Compton??

Not exactly Trump territory.

You are correct has not been for a very long time. I am sure it never was.

10 posted on 11/01/2025 7:34:46 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: TheDon

Good shoot, Ma’am!

Next time no warning shots. You already had enough justification.
Warning shots risk unintended injuries and waste ammo.


11 posted on 11/01/2025 7:47:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Terrorism has been institutionalized by the left. Ask no quarter. Give no quarter.)
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To: TheDon

Sounds like a good shoot. Shooter was female, with witnesses, warned the perv, and he had already committed a sexual assault. She should be ok.

Madam, I thank you for protecting the many women and children who would have been subject to further injury by this creep.


12 posted on 11/01/2025 7:53:30 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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“with a single well-targeted shot!”

Good point! The perp FAFO.


13 posted on 11/01/2025 7:57:14 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: TheDon

14 posted on 11/01/2025 8:06:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: frank ballenger

Castration or cancer?
That sounds like something Joan Rivers would have said as a guest on Johnny Carson. Ed McMahon would have quipped
‘Hi-Oh!!?”. Drum roll from Doc Seversin.
The violence is it’s own category of threat, but an expression for a man being too handsy around females used to be “He’s a Masher!”


15 posted on 11/01/2025 8:07:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lightman
pervertus interruptus
16 posted on 11/01/2025 8:07:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: doorgunner69

It’s not N.W.A.’s Compton, anymore.


17 posted on 11/01/2025 8:08:10 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: lee martell

A few more Elizabeth Warrens and that head of the teachers’ unions Randi Weingarten and Joy Reid should cure a lot of those guys of their urges.


18 posted on 11/01/2025 8:10:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: doorgunner69
Compton?? Not exactly Trump territory.

Compton is a small college town conveniently located near the beaches, the airport, and Downtown LA. Future president George H. W. Bush lived there with his kids at the corner of Santa Fe and Myrrh. His Barbara described the town as "lovely." Incidentally, one of my aunts grew up in Compton.

19 posted on 11/01/2025 8:11:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: frank ballenger

Works like magic!


20 posted on 11/01/2025 8:18:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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