LOS ANGELES—A man accused of engaging in a gunfight with police that resulted in the death of an assistant manager at a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake in 2018 will be allowed to act as his own attorney, a judge said Nov. 3.
Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench noted that the case has “some very complicated legal issues” and that she thought it was a “really bad idea” for Gene Evin Atkins to represent himself.
