Monterey Park shooting: 10 killed at Lunar New Year celebration, suspect dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound - CBS News

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10 killed successful shooting successful Monterey Park, California

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The fishy successful a shooting successful Monterey Park, California, that near 10 dormant and different 10 wounded has died, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Sunday. The suspect, identified arsenic 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Luna said.

Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said earlier Sunday that instrumentality enforcement was dealing with a "barricaded fishy situation" successful the metropolis of Torrance. Officers pulled implicit a achromatic van astatine 10:20 a.m., section clip Sunday, Luna said. The van past pulled into a buying halfway parking lot, and constabulary heard a azygous gunshot from wrong the vehicle, according to Luna. Officers, who were seen wearing tactical cogwheel and armor, approached the van astatine 12:52 p.m. and recovered the fishy dead.

A handgun was recovered from wrong the van, Luna said.

Police said determination are nary outstanding suspects and they are inactive not wide connected a motive.

Luna said 5 men and 5 women were killed and different 10 wounded successful the shooting astatine the Star Ballroom Dance Studio successful Monterey Park precocious Saturday night. Then, 20 to 30 minutes later, a antheral with a weapon entered the Lai Lai Ballroom successful adjacent Alhambra.

Luna said a magazine-fed semi automatic battle pistol with extended ample capableness mag was recovered from the Alhambra location. He said that helium believes that benignant of limb is not ineligible successful California, but that much "research" was needed.

"He walked successful determination with a firearm and immoderate individuals wrestled the firearm distant from him, and that idiosyncratic took off," Luna said earlier Sunday.

The melodramatic country involving the achromatic van was captured overhead by quality helicopters, which showed 2 armored vehicles positioned successful beforehand of and down the vehicle, with officers successful fatigues and assemblage armor astatine the rear of 1 of the constabulary vehicles.

Luna said Sunday day that a unfortunate halfway had been acceptable up and urged anyone to spell who suspected a household subordinate had been astatine the creation hall.

Shortly aft 10 p.m. Saturday, officers arrived connected the country of the shooting successful effect to a telephone of shots fired and recovered 10 radical wounded extracurricular the Star Dance Studio. The 10 wounded individuals were transported to section hospitals, wherever 7 of them remained arsenic of Sunday night, Luna said. The victims each appeared to beryllium astatine slightest 50 years old, Luna said Sunday night.

Monterey Park is simply a metropolis of astir 60,000 radical that sits astatine the eastbound borderline of Los Angeles. The bulk of its residents are Asian immigrants oregon their descendants, astir of them Chinese. The creation workplace successful downtown Monterey Park is conscionable a fewer blocks from metropolis hallway connected its main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with portion malls that are afloat of tiny businesses whose signs are successful some English and Chinese. Cantonese and Mandarin are some wide spoken, Chinese holidays are celebrated, and Chinese films are screened successful the city.

Federal agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are connected the country assisting section police, and White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden had been updated connected the shooting.

"Jill and I are reasoning of those killed and injured successful past night's deadly wide shooting successful Monterey Par," Mr. Biden said successful a connection Sunday night. "While determination is inactive overmuch we don't cognize astir the motive successful this senseless attack, we bash cognize that galore families are grieving tonight, oregon praying that their loved 1 volition retrieve from their wounds."

Mr. Biden ordered flags to beryllium flown astatine half-staff until sunset connected Thursday.

Local nonmigratory Wong Wei told the Los Angeles Times his person had been astatine the creation studio, and she had been successful the bath erstwhile the shooting erupted. When she emerged from the bathroom, she saw a gunman and 3 bodies — 2 women and 1 idiosyncratic who helium said was the brag of the studio.

The person past fled to his location astatine astir 11 p.m., Wei said, adding that his friends told him that the shooter appeared to occurrence indiscriminately with a agelong gun. "They don't cognize why, truthful they run," helium told the newspaper.

Peter Fong, a person of "Mr. Ma," 1 of the instructors astatine the creation studio, told CBS News that "Mr. Ma" was 1 of the radical killed successful the shooting. None of the victims had been officially identified arsenic of Sunday night.

Officials were besides investigating a 2nd incidental that occurred soon aft the Monterey Park shooting astir 2 miles distant successful the metropolis of Alhambra to spot if the 2 were connected.

Preliminary reports indicated that detectives were searching the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio successful Alhambra aboriginal connected Sunday morning, wherever an equipped fishy — perchance matching the statement of the Monterey Park gunman — had entered earlier being disarmed by patrons and fleeing. According to CBS Los Angeles, authorities were looking to find whether the fishy near the country of the Monterey Park shooting and went to the Alhambra creation studio. No 1 was wounded astatine the 2nd scene, officials said.

Two instrumentality enforcement sources told CBS News that investigators were conducting ballistic investigation of the limb recovered astatine the country successful Alhambra to effort to find if the limb is connected to the Monterey Park shooting and whether the idiosyncratic was the aforesaid suspect. The limb recovered from Alhambra was not an battle weapon, constabulary said.

One neighbour of the Monterey Park workplace told CBS Los Angeles the gunshots sounded similar fireworks, but owed to the celebrations successful the area, helium did not deliberation overmuch of it astatine the time.

The festival successful Monterey Park has been canceled for Sunday, officials said.

Videos posted connected societal media showed radical being loaded onto stretchers and placed into ambulances. Other photos showed bloodied and bandaged victims being treated by Monterey Park firefighters successful a parking lot.

Pat Milton contributed reporting.