Ten killed in mass taking pictures in Los Angeles space

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP

A person fatally shot 10 individuals at a ballroom dance venue the place individuals had been celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year late on Saturday in a metropolis on the jap fringe of Los Angeles, and he was nonetheless at giant after fleeing the scene, police stated.

Another 10 individuals had been taken to native hospitals to be handled for accidents, and at the very least one was in vital situation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department stated early on Sunday morning, about 5 hours after the assault in Monterey Park.

When native police first arrived, individuals had been “pouring out of the location screaming,” division captain Andrew Meyer instructed reporters in a news briefing on the scene.

There was no instant details about a motive for the taking pictures or an outline of the suspect or form of gun used.

The taking pictures befell after 10 p.m. PST (0600 GMT on Sunday) across the location of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration the place many downtown streets are closed for festivities that draw hundreds of individuals from throughout Southern California. Police stated the festivities deliberate for Sunday had been now cancelled.

Monterey Park is a metropolis of about 60,000 individuals round 7 miles (11 km) from downtown Los Angeles. About two-thirds of its residents are Asian, in accordance with U.S. Census knowledge, and the town is understood for its many Chinese eating places and groceries. The sheriff’s division stated it didn’t know whether or not the assault was racially motivated.

Footage posted on social media confirmed injured individuals on stretchers being taken to ambulances by emergency workers. Around the scene of the taking pictures police guarded cordoned-off streets, the video confirmed.

Seung Won Choi, who owns a seafood barbecue restaurant close to the positioning of the assault, instructed the Los Angeles Times that three individuals rushed into his restaurant and instructed him to lock the door as a result of a person was unloading a number of rounds of ammunition on the dance membership throughout the road.

Mass shootings are recurrent within the United States, and the assault in Monterey Park was the deadliest since May 2022, when a gunman killed 19 college students and two academics at a faculty in Uvalde, Texas.

US President Joe Biden has been briefed by Homeland Security on the mass taking pictures in Monterey Park, the White House press secretary says.

The President has been briefed by the Homeland Security Advisor on the mass taking pictures in Monterey Park. He directed her to ensure that the FBI is offering full help to native authorities, and to replace him often as we speak as extra particulars are recognized.

— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) January 22, 2023

The deadliest taking pictures in California historical past was in 1984 when a gunman killed 21 individuals at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, close to San Diego.