Woman Killed by 1 Shot, Not 4, Autopsy Shows

An autopsy on a woman who was fatally shot in a Los Angeles liquor store last week after deputies opened fire on a man they say pointed a gun at them revealed that the woman died of a single gunshot wound, the Sheriff’s Department reported Monday. Her family had originally thought that she had been hit by four bullets.

The bullet struck Gianna Maria Blue in the neck and exited through her chest, said Deputy Gabe Ramirez. An expended round was found on a hospital gurney under Blue’s body after she was rushed to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center May 16, but ballistic tests on it had not been completed, he said.

Until then, investigators will not know if the fatal bullet was fired by one of the two deputies involved in the shooting or by the man they were shooting at, 24-year-old Hernandez Vincson. He was critically wounded in the incident at E&W; Liquor store on Central Avenue and Century Boulevard.