A terrifying drama played out at Trader Joe’s in Los Angeles over the weekend that tragically took the life of a store employee.
After allegedly fighting with and shooting his grandmother, 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins entered the Silverlake store, armed, and proceeded to engage in a hostage situation with police.
27-year-old employee Melyada Corado was fatally shot before the ordeal was over.
So, OK, that’s incredibly intense and we can’t imagine the loss Corado’s family and friends are experiencing.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
But we’d be remiss not to direct your attention to this local news clip, which was almost certainly filmed before the grim details of the story were widely known, in which a gay witness seems to have the hots for the suspect.
“When you ask a gay man what the suspect looked like you’re going to get the truth…,” the caption reads.
Watch:
When you ask a gay man what the suspect looked like you're going to get the truth… ? (hope everyone is safe though. #traderjoes #cnn #gay pic.twitter.com/90w2dWuHiW
— Bwelchka (@Bwelchka) July 22, 2018
Atkins is being held on $2 million bail.
kiriakis1
It’s embarrassing that the thirsty idiot happens to be gay. The guy he’s thirsting for killed two people.
Doug
I totally agree. This is a guy who was more concerned about how sexually attractive the guy is rather than the fact that he’s a murderer.
tham
Actually, the grandmother lived and the Trader Joe employee was killed by friendly fire from the LAPD.
I’m not saying anything…just the facts
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/us/trader-joes-lapd-bullet-killed-victim/index.html
paul dorian lord fredine
moral: shut your mouth until all the facts are known. i’m sure there are those who also thought dahmer was ‘hot’.
prarie pup
Ya know what’s creepy? A lot of people DID think Jeffrey Dahmer was hot. There are sickos out there who are attracted to serial killers. Some broad married Richard (The Night Stalker) Ramirez, and Charles Manson had an entire harem of devoted–but deeply stupid–women who adored him for decades.
Agent9902
Hey, we’re human.
That’s one LA queen, out of millions.
She was scared, stoned, and working on a tan.
Also note that it was an unknown news reporter, not an official police interrogation.
eireapparent
He’s an embarrassment
Kangol
Miguel was speaking his immediate truth. He didn’t say the murderer was a good person, he just thought he was hot. My sympathies are with the murdered grandmother and the woman killed in the store.
Kieran
Well isn’t that special.
tham
Again, see above
DHT
This is actually kind of sad, this gay man is never going to live this down. This is why I detest the idea of television news being allowed to interview people at crime scenes…you never know what those who have been traumatized are going to say.