Alex Horton, The Washington Post Published 12:37 pm PDT, Sunday, July 22, 2018 In a crisis, look for the helpers. On Saturday afternoon, the crisis was a hostage situation in a Trader Joe’s store in Los Angeles. And the helper was Sean Garace. Police say a man had shot his grandmother at least seven times, injured another woman and dragged her into his grandmother’s car to escape. A police pursuit led him the grocery as he exchanged gunfire. He barricaded himself inside the store, with some of the 40 to 50 people inside, the Los Angeles Times reported. Some fled out exits. Others hid. Gerace, who works at the store, devised a plan. “I was working in the backroom, heard screaming and gunfire, ran upstairs, grabbed a couple co-workers, made my way to into a back section of the storage area upstairs,” Gerace told CBS2. “I grabbed an emergency ladder, barricaded the hallway, grabbed a weapon, put the ladder out the window, and just tried to get the attention of a SWAT officer.” A video of Gerace’s actions was a brief glimpse of humanity during the three-hour hostage situation: The ladder buckles and sways as he nears the bottom. The gunman… Read full this story
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