Silver Lake Trader Joe's shooting: Family files wrongful death lawsuit against LAPD

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The family of the woman shot and killed by Los Angeles police during a shootout at a Silver Lake Trader Joe's has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department.

Assistant store manager Mely Corado was accidentally shot as officers exchanged gunfire with a chase suspect.
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Lawyers for the victim's family say they've repeatedly asked the LAPD to release key information and video of the July shooting.

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"The chief of police wanted to say that they've been cooperating with us. He talked about transparency, but the bottom line is I haven't heard from him or the LAPD. We still don't have a coroner's report after all this time," father Albert Corado said at a press conference Thursday morning.
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The suspect, Gene Atkins, remains behind bars. He has been charged with murder because his alleged actions started the chain of events that led to Corado's death, prosecutors say.

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