Grenade missing from scene of blast that killed three LA police officers | Los Angeles

A grenade is absent from the place of an explosion that killed three people in a Los Angeles police training center, the authorities said.

Last Friday, three veteran assistant sheriffs died in the explosion, the greatest loss of life in the Sheriff’s Department of Los Angeles in a single incident since 1857.

The Sheriff Robert Luna said that men were working on two “military style” grenades when one exploded. The other is not recorded, said Luna, according to the office of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, which is investigating the explosion.

Luna said the authorities have special X -ray vehicles, searched the explosion area and examined the office spaces and the gymnasium, but did not find the second pomegranate.

“You get the drift. We have examined everything we have been able to,” he said, adding that no one in the public had access to the region.

Grenades were seized in a complex of apartments in Santa Monica one day before the explosion, said Luna. He said detectives have struck down the devices and thought they were inert. The devices were then considered “destroyed and made sure” at the Biscailuz training center, where we exploded.

Luna said he had called for an independent examination of the policies and practices of the criminal fire and explosives team, and has already changed the way he manages these types of situations.

“All future explosive devices, inert or not, will be treated as if they were all live and will be eliminated accordingly,” he said.

We did not know if the grenades had a link with the army. The men killed were the detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn. They served 19, 22 and 33 years respectively in the department.

The alcohol, tobacco and firearm office should publish a final report on their death in September.