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Deposition Set for Suspect in Silver Lake Trader Joe’s Shooting Lawsuit

by SFVS Staff January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The suspect whose pursuit led to a Los Angeles police officer accidentally shooting and killing an assistant manager outside the Trader Joe’s store in Silver Lake in 2018 will be deposed by attorneys for both sides in the victim’s family’s civil suit later this month, a judge ruled.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey issued his order on Tuesday, Jan. 4, directing that the deposition of Gene Atkins take place Jan. 22 at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. His order comes after lawyers in the case agreed in their joint court papers that “good cause exists to take Gene Atkins’ deposition, since he is a critical witness to the … shooting.”

Atkins, now 31, was shot in the left elbow as he ran from the car into the market. He was subsequently charged with murder involving 27-year-old Melyda “Mely” Corado’s July 21, 2018, death, along with 50 other counts.

Corado’s relatives filed a wrongful death and negligence suit against the city and the officers in November 2018. Atkins had previously sent a handwritten note to the plaintiffs’ lawyers and said that he never used his weapon after his car crashed outside the business.

“I did not fire any shots outside of the store…,” according to

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Atkins, who further alleges police altered video footage and planted shell casings. He also says he wants Corado’s family members to win their lawsuit against the city and that he hopes their lawyers have the family’s best interests at heart.

In previous court papers, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said Atkins may have waived his Fifth Amendment rights by sending the letter and that they wanted to depose him in preparing their opposition to the city’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which is scheduled to be heard May 13. They noted that the judge twice denied them access to the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division report into the shooting until after Atkins’ criminal case trial is over.

Lawyers for the City Attorney’s Office stated in their earlier court

papers that Atkins’ claim in his letter that he did not fire his gun before entering Trader Joe’s is “belied by ballistics evidence collected at the scene” and that by the time the officers arrived at Trader Joe’s, they knew that Atkins had opened fire at his home, had shot and perhaps killed a person inside that home, had kidnapped a woman as he fled the home, had collided with other vehicles and nearly struck pedestrians, had tried to carjack an occupied vehicle and had fired his gun directly at police officers several times during the pursuit.

“Thus, the officers’ use of force was objectively reasonable based on the facts and circumstances confronting the officers,” the lawyers for the City Attorney’s Office argue in their court papers.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office released a report in

December 2020 finding that Officers Sinlen Tse and Sarah Winans were “justified in using deadly force in an attempt to stop” Atkins.

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