One of two grenades recovered from a Santa Monica townhome complex is confirmed to have caused the blast that killed three detectives on July 18, but the second grenade is missing despite extensive searches, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced on Friday.
The day before the blast, a resident of a townhome complex on the 800 block of Bay Street in Santa Monica reported what seemed to be two hand grenades inside a storage unit in the building’s underground parking garage, Luna said. Arson and Explosives detectives took the two explosives — believed to be inert at the time — back to the Biscailuz Training Center in East Los Angeles to be disposed of.
“One of the grenades is unaccounted for at this time,” Luna said at a Friday evening news conference. “We have looked at everything out there that we possibly could.”
That involved multiple searches, including using drones and bucket trucks to search trees, officials said.
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