[originaltext] It is a crime that is getting to be common in Los Angeles. C

It is a crime that is getting to be common in Los Angeles. Customers are enjoying their meals at a restaurant. Two or more 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 wear baseball caps with sunglasses so as to avoid being recognized by others.
    (26)At 9:30 p. m. Wednesday, the business establishment was a Starbucks. Three young men walked in, emptied the cash register, robbed the employees and the customers, and walked out to their stolen SUV. The police were able to respond quickly. (27)The chase ended 10 minutes later with one police car hitting 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 immediately hopped out of the SUV and started running in three different directions. (28) It took the police about 10 minutes to catch two of them; one had hidden in a dumpster, and the other had broken a car window and hidden in the car. The third one, instead of running, had decided it was quicker to jump off the overpass onto the freeway 20 feet below. He landed in an emergency lane, but did not get up and run. He did not get up at all. (28) When police got to him, he was dead. According to a rough estimate, the total value of the robbed issues is 2,000 US dollars.