Santa Monica Apartments related to the explosion kills 3 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Training Agency is investigating the deadly explosion authorities are investigating links to some explosives collected in Santa Monica.
Three deputies were dealing with explosive material in the explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscaluze Center Training Academy on Friday.
The cause of the explosion has not been determined. However, the investigators took investigators to the apartment building in the 800 block of Santa Monica Bay Street in connection with the explosion on Friday. Three deputies who died in the explosion responded to a call to assist the Santa Monica Police Department at the complex on Thursday.
A city police officer told The Times that a grenade was found in the Santa Monica apartment building on Thursday. Sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told the Times that investigators are trying to determine whether the explosives were the explosives that caused the explosion.
Michael Kellman, who lives in the building, told The Times that a fellow countryman called police on Thursday after finding a bag of grenades hidden in its storage unit.
He said she had lived in the building for several years and believed the luggage was left behind by the former occupant. Authorities returned to her unit on Friday to search for any remaining explosives from the apartment.
Nishida said the Santa Monica Police Department evacuated residents from the Bay Street apartment building Friday afternoon, while authorities continued to search for any other explosive material at the site. The FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad are assisting in the investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Guns and Explosives is expected to lead to the federal investigation into the cause of the explosion.
Nancy lives on Bay Street and chooses not to provide a last name for privacy reasons. Nancy asked an officer if her nanny could move to the car in front of her house. “No one is allowed,” the officer told her.
On Friday morning, employees told The Times they heard the huge boom around 7:30 a.m., with the bomb squad from the sheriff retaining the parking lot of its vehicles. They heard the glass breaking and screaming.
Assn President Rich Pippin. For the Los Angeles deputy sheriff, it was “the worst day in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.”
“You never get up in the morning and look forward to this kind of news, never, sadly, in the case we deal with it, it’s not easy,” he said. “It never gets easier. It hurts.”
Deputies were identified as Dets on Friday night. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn. Authorities said they worked in the department for 19, 22 and 33 years respectively.
