Fatal Shooting at Mall Started With Argument
Police said Sunday that a fatal shooting at a crowded South Bay mall grew out of an argument between three armed men who had met at a mall restaurant to settle a dispute.
Two suspects were being held in connection with the killing of Trammell Aum, a 24-year-old Long Beach man who died in surgery after he was shot several times Saturday evening on the patio of the Red Robin restaurant at the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach.
Redondo Beach Police Sgt. Avery Richey said the nature of the dispute was unknown but that it appeared to be unrelated to drug or gang activity.
About a dozen shots were fired--apparently by one person--during the incident near the mall’s eastern entrance off Hawthorne Boulevard after 6 p.m. The shooting was witnessed by scores of people and some bullets landed in a planter box behind the victim. No one else was injured.
Ricardo F. Scarpino, 23, of Oregon and Steven B. Kyllo, 23, of Vancouver, British Columbia, were arrested as they tried to leave the patio by police officers patrolling the holiday shopping crowd.
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