Woman dies in Los Angeles supermarket hostage drama

The drama began at another location when "a male suspect... become involved in a family dispute which resulted in him shooting his grandmother and a female," Sergeant Barry Montgomery told journalists."That suspect fled the location in his grandmother's vehicle, taking that female victim with him," and eventually entered a Trader Joe's supermarket, he said.While police chased the suspect he "fired on officers multiple times" before an "additional gun battle" outside the Trader Joe's, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore told reporters.During the shootout, the suspect was wounded in the arm, Mayor Eric Garcetti said, adding that one woman was shot in the store and later declared dead at the scene."I regret to inform you that there is one fatality that occurred inside, of a woman," Garcetti said, without identifying the victim.A police officer talks to a woman in a parking lot across the street from a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles where a hostage situation unfolded.Inside the store the suspect took "numerous victims, of citizens as well as store employees, hostage," Moore said.Officers rescued some workers and customers, while the hostage-taker released some himself.About three hours after the ordeal began, negotiations led to the man "handcuffing himself and coming outside and surrendering to SWAT officers," the police chief said.The incident injected chaos -- and scores of police and fire vehicles -- into the busy commercial area of shops and apartment buildings.Don Kohles was standing outside the store when the suspect's car slammed into a pole.Just then he heard two shots. He ran into the exit door of the Trader Joetarget="_blank"'>"Gunman walked in shooting. He went into the back and took hostages. Employees snuck out through back emergency exits. Employee says blood was all over the floor, unclear from where," he wrote.