Overview

• Investigators have scoured the training site perimeter, vehicles, equipment and surrounding storage areas without locating the grenade recovered from a Santa Monica underground garage.
• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has taken over the search for the missing device and deployed its National Response Team to reconstruct the explosion and advise on safety protocols.
• The sheriff’s department has blocked access to roads leading to the East Los Angeles facility and executed search warrants in Santa Monica and Marina del Rey to trace the device’s movements.
• Luna has pledged a departmentwide overhaul of bomb-disposal protocols after acknowledging that technicians misidentified the devices as inert before the fatal blast.
• The explosion killed three veteran members of LASD’s Arson and Explosives Detail—Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn—whose collective 74 years of service marked the agency’s deadliest incident since 1857.