An attorney for Emma Argueta filed court papers on Monday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa R. Jaskol notifying her of the accord, but no terms were divulged. Trial was scheduled to begin March 17.
The underlying suit was brought by the family of the late Melyda “Mely” Corado, who sued the city along with LAPD Officers Sinlen Tse and Sarah Winans. Corado was hit by a bullet from Tse’s gun while she was inside the store on July 21, 2018.
In this photo provided by Christian Dunlop, police officers use a mirror to see inside a Trader Joe’s store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Police believe a man involved in the standoff with officers shot his grandmother and girlfriend before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store. (Christian Dunlop via AP)
Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, which was the scene of a deadly shooting, was closed as investigations continued on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018. (Photo by Dan Watson)
Los Angeles police released additional video footage from the July 21 chase and gun battle at a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake. (Courtesy of Los Angeles Police Department)
A customer leaves a Trader Joe’s market in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. The Los Angeles grocery store where a manager was accidentally killed by police during a gunbattle with a suspect has reopened. The market reopened its doors Thursday with a sign telling customers, “We missed you.” (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Kenya Friend-Daniel with Trader Joe’s shows buttons worn by store staff in memorial to store manager Melyda Corado at Trader Joe’s market in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. The grocery store where Corado was accidentally killed by police during a gun battle with a suspect has reopened. The market reopened its doors Thursday with a sign telling customers, “We missed you.” (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
A note is left for Melyda Corado on a street side memorial next to the entrance to a Trader Joe’s market in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. The grocery store where Corado was accidentally killed by police during a gun battle with a suspect has reopened its doors on Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Ben Myers an executive for Trader Joe’s talks to the media on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 in the Silver lake district of Los Angeles. The grocery store where a manager was accidentally killed by police during a gun battle with a suspect has reopened The Trader Joe’s market in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood opened its doors Thursday with a sign telling customers, “We missed you.” Myers says it’s a bittersweet day, with continuing heartbreak over the tragedy but recognition that moving forward is important. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Store employees wait for customers at Trader Joe’s market in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. The Los Angeles grocery store where a manager was accidentally killed by police during a gun battle with a suspect has reopened. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Workers do some last minute repairs on an entrance door to a Trader Joe’s market in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. The grocery store where a manager was accidentally killed by police during a gun battle with a suspect has reopened The Trader Joe’s market in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood opened its doors Thursday with a sign telling customers, “We missed you.” (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
A Los Angeles Police Department officer escorts Trader Joe’s employees to the Silver Lake Community Church, a block away from their Trader Joe’s store in Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. Police believe a man involved in a standoff at the Los Angeles supermarket shot his grandmother and girlfriend and then fired at officers during a pursuit before he crashed into a utility pole outside the supermarket and ran inside the store. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
ADDS TO CLARIFY CORADO WAS SHOT TO DEATH IN A GUNFIGHT BETWEEN A GUNMAN AND POLICE – Paolo Singer, 27, a Silver Lake resident, prays at a makeshift memorial of flowers, candles and notes growing on the sidewalk outside the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s store in Los Angeles, Monday, July 23, 2018. Two days earlier, Trader Joe’s employee Melyda Corado was shot and killed at the store in a gunfight between a gunman and police. Grieving family members, co-workers and customers on Sunday remembered Corado as lively, hardworking and always smiling. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Visitors add to a growing memorial outside of the Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake. Frequent shoppers, nearby residents and employees built a makeshift memorial outside the store on Sunday to mourn the death of the 27-year-old manager Melyda Corado who was killed when a shooting suspect fled into the market while exchanging gunfire with police. (Photo by David Crane, Daily News/SCNG)
A pair of visitors embrace outside of the Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake Monday. Frequent shoppers, nearby residents and employees built a makeshift memorial outside the store on Sunday to mourn the death of the 27-year-old manager Melyda Corado who was killed when a shooting suspect fled into the market while exchanging gunfire with police. (Photo by David Crane, Daily News/SCNG)
A pair of visitors embrace outside of the Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake Monday. Frequent shoppers, nearby residents and employees built a makeshift memorial outside the store on Sunday to mourn the death of the 27-year-old manager Melyda Corado who was killed when a shooting suspect fled into the market while exchanging gunfire with police. (Photo by David Crane, Daily News/SCNG)
Melyda Corado, 27, was a manager at the Trader Joe’s store in Silver Lake where a man suspected of shooting his grandmother fled following a police pursuit. Corado was shot when the suspect and police exchanged gunfire, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. (Photo courtesy of Corado family)
Los Feliz resident Orameh Bagheri posts a rememberance on the wall outside Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake on Sunday, July 22.(Photo by Dan Watson)
Construction workers place flowers from the store in front of the Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018 while investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly shooting . (Photo by Dan Watson)
Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake is closed on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018, as investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly shooting . (Photo by Dan Watson)
Silver Lake resident, Teri, right, who would not give her last name, speaks to investigators on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018, about her ordeal as one of the hostages taken in Saturday’s deadly shooting at Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake. (Photo by Dan Watson)
Los Angeles Police Officers stand in front of Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018, as the entrance investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly shooting . (Photo by Dan Watson)
Flowers from the store sit in front of Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018 as the entrance is boarded up while investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly shooting . (Photo by Dan Watson)
Flowers from the store stand in front of Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018 while investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly shooting . (Photo by Dan Watson)
Silver Lake resident, Teri, right, who would not give her last name, speaks to investigators on Sunday morning, July 22, 2018, about her ordeal as one of the hostages taken in Saturday’s deadly shooting at Trader Joe’s, Silver Lake. (Photo by Dan Watson)
In this image from video provided by KNBC-TV, officers take a suspect into custody outside a Trader Joe’s supermarket in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. (KNBC-TV via AP)
In this image from video provided by KNBC-TV, police officers escort a suspect away from a Trader Joe’s supermarket in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. (KNBC-TV via AP)
Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a news conference about the shooting incident at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, July 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In this image from video provided by KNBC-TV, a man with his hands up walks towards police from a Trader Joe’s supermarket in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. Police believe a man involved in a standoff with officers shot his grandmother and girlfriend before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store. (KNBC-TV via AP)
In this image from video provided by KNBC-TV, hostages and a suspect leave a Trader Joe’s supermarket as Los Angeles Police officers close in at right, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. (KNBC-TV via AP)
In this image from video provided by KNBC-TV, police and civilians take cover near a Trader Joe’s supermarket in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles Saturday, July 21, 2018. Police believe a man involved in a standoff with officers shot his grandmother and girlfriend before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store. (KNBC-TV via AP)
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In this photo provided by Christian Dunlop, police officers use a mirror to see inside a Trader Joe’s store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Police believe a man involved in the standoff with officers shot his grandmother and girlfriend before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store. (Christian Dunlop via AP)
Former Irvine Deputy Police Chief Jeffrey J. Noble, a use-of-force expert, said in a sworn declaration that both officers should have held their fire after the man they had been pursuing in a vehicle chase, Gene Atkins, ran into the Trader Joe’s so as to avoid the eventual mistaken shooting of Corado.
Argueta, who was in a car leaving the Trader Joe’s parking lot, told the judge during Atkins’ 2019 preliminary hearing that she heard gunfire after Atkins got out of the Camry and that her boyfriend screamed that her eye was bleeding. She said she remembers sitting frozen in the vehicle and telling herself, “I’m probably going to die. I’m probably going to die.”
Argueta said during the same hearing that she had to undergo surgery that day and still had difficulty seeing with her right eye. Argueta sued the officers in February 2019. In their court papers, lawyers for the City Attorney’s Office stated that any bullet that may have struck Argueta did not come from the officers’ weapons.
“If plaintiff Argueta’s injury was caused by a bullet at all, it was a bullet fired by Atkins that was intended to kill a police officer,” the City Attorney’s Office’s filing stated.
Atkins, now 35, was shot in the left elbow as he ran from the car into the market. He was subsequently charged with murder for the 27-year-old Corado’s July 21, 2018, death, along with 50 other counts, including shooting and wounding his grandmother and 17-year-old girlfriend and firing at police officers. He is still awaiting trial.
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