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Lead] A female flight attendant of a domestic airline was stabbed and in critical condition at a shopping mall in Los Angeles, USA.
She was shot and killed by a security officer who also brandished a weapon on her 9-year-old child.
Correspondent Yoon-Soo Kim from Washington.
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Local time This afternoon, a man suddenly started brandishing a weapon at a hypermarket shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles, USA.
After swinging a weapon at a 9-year-old boy passing by, he ran into a domestic airline employee A who was in the same store.
Mr. A was seriously injured in the chest area by the weapon wielded by the assailant, and was taken to the hospital, but is known to be in critical condition.
[Michael Moore/US LA Police: A black man in his 40s who appears to be homeless is believed to have committed a crime without a justifiable reason.]
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It is known that Mr. A was injured while shopping before the return flight after finishing his LA flight schedule.
The shooter was shot dead by a security guard on the scene.
The police are investigating the motive for the crime, assuming that the criminal committed the crime with a weapon in the mart.
[Michael Moore / US LA Police: The culprit came out with a kitchen knife she was selling at her mart, and it is judged that she committed the crime.]
On the same day, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a Korean woman in her 60s broke into a store she owned. There was also an incident where a robber shot and died.