The man accused of fatally shooting a Long Beach fire captain six weeks ago after setting off a predawn explosion in a high-rise apartment building died in custody over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
Thomas Man Kim, 77, died at 3:21 a.m. Sunday in the hospital ward of County-USC Medical Center, where he had been held since he was arrested June 25, said Deputy Wally Bracks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Kim, a resident of the Covenant Manor senior apartments, was arrested June 25 after setting off an explosion in his apartment unit in an attempted murder-suicide targeting a neighbor upstairs, prosecutors alleged.
“He had a previous medical condition he succumbed to,” Bracks said.