"48 Hours" Live to Tell: Standoff at Trader Joe's
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(upbeat music) - Saturday at July 21st was a really nice summer day. - It was sunny, just like every single day. It has been since I moved here. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Hello, is everything okay? We got a 911 call from your phone. - Here's the front house in front of me. I think this is my aunt, Grandpa, and just shattered. - Oh my goodness. (upbeat music) - Okay, now he's leaving in her car. - What kind of car? - What kind of car? - It's a blue, a door and blue camera. - The gunman shot his grandmother multiple times. That just goes to show you how dangerous the suspect is. - And then leading police on a pursuit from South LA. - He had a female with him. We believe that that may be his girlfriend. (upbeat music) - And I was just doing my usual Saturday thing. I went to my yoga class in the morning and then ran a couple errands. - Police started searching for that car. They found it in the Hollywood division. - My friend was letting me stay at her place and I was like, okay, I'm gonna go get groceries for us for the week. I love grocery shopping. It's like my hobby. (laughing) - I was coming right up on the Trader Joe's. I thought, oh, I'll just go in there. - Whenever you go into that Trader Joe's, there are always like hundreds of people inside of it. - On this given Saturday, this is where the eyes of the world turned. (upbeat music) - Oh (beep) the show's turned. Rock us. - Six, eight, six, every shot's hard. (indistinct) - My daughter and I were having an afternoon together. We were getting her ready for high school. (indistinct) (indistinct) - It was mid afternoon when we got to the Trader Joe's.
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Hostages chillingly reveal the terrifying three hours they spent held captive by a gunman inside a California supermarket. CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports.