Authorities investigating The Mortal Essay In a training center of the Sheriff Department of the County of Los Angeles, examines the links with certain explosives collected in Santa Monica.
Three deputies were killed on Friday in an explosion at the Biscailuz Center Training Academy of the County Department of Los Angeles at the East while manipulating explosive equipment.
No cause for the explosion was determined. But the investigation led investigators on Friday in an apartments in the Bay Street block 800 in Santa Monica as part of the explosion, according to the department spokesperson Nishida. The three deputies killed in the explosion answered a call to help the Santa Monica police service at the complex on Thursday.
A grenade was recovered Thursday at the Santa Monica apartments complex, a city police officer told Times. Sources that were not allowed to speak publicly told Times that the investigators try to determine if the explosives were those who caused the explosion.
Michael Kellman, who lives in the building, told Times that a tenant colleague called the police on Thursday after discovering a bag of grenades hidden in his storage unit.
She has lived in the building for several years and thinks that the bag has been left by the former occupier, he said. The authorities returned to his unit on Friday to travel the apartment for any remaining explosive.
Friday afternoon, the Santa Monica police service evacuated residents of the building on rue Bay Street, while the authorities continue to search for the site any additional explosive material, Nishida said. The bomb team of the FBI and Los Angeles police department helps the investigation. The alcohol, tobacco, firearm and explosives office should conduct a federal investigation into the cause of the explosion.
Nancy, who lives on Bay Street and has chosen not to provide a surname for reasons of confidentiality, said that the police had struck at his door late Friday afternoon and informed him that there was an “active investigation” and that she was to evacuate. Nancy asked an officer if his nanny could move his car, who was in front of his house. “No one is authorized,” said the officer.
Friday morning, the employees told Times that they had heard a massive boom around 7:30 am from the parking lot where the Sheriff’s bomb team keeps its vehicles. They heard glass breaking and shouting.
Rich Pippin, President of the Assn. For the assistant sheriffs of Los Angeles, described it as “worse day in the history of the Sheriff’s Department of the County of Los Angeles”.
“You never get up in the morning while waiting for this kind of news, never, and unfortunately, as often as we take care of this, it does not become easier,” he said. “It never becomes easier. It hurts. “
The deputies were identified on Friday evening as DESTS. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn. They had served respectively 19, 22 and 33 years old with the department, the authorities said.
