Two city sanitation workers were fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide at the Glendale Water Reclamation Plant in Atwater Village in the early hours of Tuesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call in the 4600 block of West Colorado Boulevard at 5:30 a.m., according to a department spokesperson. <\/p>\n
There, officers found the suspected victim, a 35-year-old man, and the suspected shooter, a 30-year-old man, suffering from shotgun wounds. <\/p>\n
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not been released. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply saddened by the shooting deaths of two City Sanitation employees at the LA Glendale Water Reclamation Plant,\u201d L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. \u201cMy heart breaks for this loss of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bass said there was no ongoing threat to public safety and that the tragedy remained under investigation.<\/p>\n
The Glendale Water Reclamation Plant, just east of the 5 Freeway, treats wastewater for reuse in irrigation and industrial processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two city sanitation workers were fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide at the Glendale Water Reclamation Plant in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45600,45598,22349,6577,45597,3666,45599,48,52,51,1637,47,50,49,3289,43210,1492,45601,1069,11569,45602],"class_list":["post-79375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-30-year-old-man","tag-apparent-murder-suicide","tag-atwater-village","tag-authority","tag-glendale-water-reclamation-plant","tag-irrigation","tag-l-a-sanitation-worker","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-life","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-loss","tag-ongoing-threat","tag-public-safety","tag-reuse","tag-tuesday-morning","tag-wastewater","tag-west-colorado-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}