It is a crime that is getting to be common in Los Angeles. Customers are enjoying their meals at a restaurant. Two or m _______  criminals stroll in and start waving their guns at everyone. They demand that everyone put their wallets or empty their purses into a bag, and then the gunmen stroll out. They usually w_______ hoodies or baseball caps with sunglasses to thwart identification.

At 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, the business establishment was a Starbucks. Three young men walked in, emptied the cash register, r ________ the employees and the customers, and walked out to their stolen SUV. The police were able to respond quickly. A chase ended with one police car ramming the SUV from behind on the Third Street overpass. The SUV came to a stop, but as usually happens, the three criminals were unhurt. They i________ hopped out of the SUV and started running in three different directions. It took about 10 minutes to catch two of them; one had hidden in a dumpster, and the other had b________ a car window and hidden in the car.

The third one, instead of running, had decided it was quicker to jump off overpass onto the freeway 20 feet b______ . He landed in an emergency lane, but did not get up and run. He did not get up at all. When police got to him, he was d_______ . "Too bad he wasn't holding hands with the other two when he jumped." said one officer, who asked to remain nameless.