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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced on Friday that one of the two grenades was found before the Santa Monica Townhom complex with three depots killed which is currently missing.
A day before the explosion, members of the Sheriff Department arson and explosives assisted the Santa Monica Police after a resident of a resident of an underground garage discovered “two grenade -like equipment” in an storage unit in an underground garage. Luna said the equipment was considered “passive” after an X-ray, but was still taken to the Biscaluz Center Training Academy, which was “destroyed and safe.”
An explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department Training Facility left three depots. (KTTV)
La County Sheriff Training Facility identifies three experienced depots killed in the blast
However, according to Kenny Cooper, special agent of ATF’s Los Angeles Field Division, one of the grenades exploded at the training center. He also said that ATF forces and local law enforcement “carefully examined the radius of more than 400 feet” from the blast site. Cooper said that the status of the second grenade is under investigation.
Luna denied the possibility that one of the grenades between the storage unit and the training facility in Santa Monica “fell out”, saying that the law enforcement is “not happened.”
A map shows the approximate location of the explosion.
Officials obtained a search warrant related to the blast, killing 3 Deputies in La County facility
Sheriff did not dismiss the possibility of any other person joining and said that his department and partner were investigating anyone associated with anyone’s tragedy, although he did not say how many suspects could be.
Luna told the press, “I am not ready to discuss here and now on any name of any person who can be interested or anything of that nature, not yet.”
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna speaks during a news conference after an explosion in a training facility on Friday. (Pool/Fox News)
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Luna insisted that the ATF findings are initial, but said the agency expects to complete its final analysis within 45 days.
The 18 July explosion claimed the life of Joshua Kelly-Acalund, Victor Lemm and William Osborne. The three people were assigned in arson explosive detail of the Special Enforcement Bureau.
