What we know about the Monterey Park mass shooting - Axios

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Capt. Andrew Meyer briefs the media successful Monterey Park, California, connected Sunday. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

A mass shooting successful Monterey Park, California, a majority Asian American metropolis eastbound of Los Angeles, near 10 radical dormant and 10 others injured connected the eve of Lunar New Year Saturday night, section authorities said.

The latest: The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office connected Monday released the names of two of the radical killed successful the shooting. Eight victims ranging successful property from 50s to 70s person yet to beryllium identified.

• The identified victims were My Nhan, a 65-year-old woman, and Lilan Li, a 63-year-old woman.
• The Star Ballroom Dance Studio wherever the shooting took spot released a statement connected Facebook aboriginal Monday morning, saying the workplace would beryllium closed until further notice, hoping those impacted would get "space to grieve and process what transpired wrong the past 24 hours."
• "What should person been a festive nighttime to invited the archetypal time of the Lunar New Year turned into a tragedy," the connection read.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna astatine a Sunday evening news conference identified the fishy arsenic Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old antheral whose assemblage helium said was recovered wrong a cargo van with self-inflicted gunshot wounds pursuing a standoff with constabulary successful Torrance, California. Police were investigating a motive.

• Luna said Tran was the lone fishy successful the Star Ballroom Dance Studio shooting and a 2nd incidental successful the adjacent metropolis of Alhambra soon afterward, which ended without wounded erstwhile two civilians disarmed the suspect.

• It wasn't instantly wide however galore guns were utilized successful the shooting, but instrumentality enforcement had seized a semi-automatic pistol and recovered a handgun successful the van wherever Tran's assemblage was found.

Flowers and a candle placed astatine the entranceway to the Star Ballroom Dance Studio aft constabulary took down the transgression country portion successful Monterey Park connected Sunday. Photo: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

The large picture: The Montery Park shooting occurred astatine 10:22pm Saturday successful the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, L.A. County Sheriff's Department Capt. Andrew Meyer told reporters Sunday.

• Five women and 5 men died astatine the country and the wounded victims were transported to section hospitals, their conditions ranging from unchangeable to critical, Luna said. Seven radical remained hospitalized Sunday evening, per Luna.
• Police released photos earlier Sunday of the suspected shooter, whom they said was an Asian antheral they described arsenic "armed and dangerous," arsenic instrumentality enforcement investigated the different incidental successful Alhambra.
• Luna praised the civilians who disarmed the fishy astatine Alhambra's Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio for redeeming lives.

What we're watching: It's excessively aboriginal to accidental whether the suspected shooter knew immoderate of the victims oregon if the onslaught was targeted, Meyer said.

• Luna said helium believed the "magazine-fed semiautomatic battle pistol" recovered from the country successful Alhambra "is not ineligible to person present successful the State of California."

State of play: President Biden connected Sunday evening ordered the U.S. emblem to beryllium flown astatine half-staff astatine the White House and different national buildings until sunset Thursday arsenic "a people of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence," per a White House statement.

• Biden said successful a connection earlier Sunday evening that helium had directed his homeland information advisor to "mobilize afloat national enactment to local and authorities authorities arsenic they proceed to respond and analyse this shooting."

Photo: President Biden/Twitter

Zoom in: Monterey Park was hosting a two-day Lunar New Year solemnisation this play that's 1 of the largest successful Southern California, AP notes. 

• The shooting took spot successful the metropolis of immoderate 60,000 people's downtown, wherever reddish lanterns lined the streets, per AP
• Sunday's planned festivities were canceled "out of an abundance of caution and successful reverence for the victims," Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese told reporters.

Zoom out: Cities crossed the state bolstered their information and accrued constabulary patrols for Lunar New Year celebrations successful the aftermath of the wide shooting, CNN reports.

• The L.A. County Sheriff's Department, New York City Police Department and the Philadelphia Police Department were among those doing so.

By the numbers: The Monterey Park calamity was the 23rd wide shooting successful the U.S. this year, per the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a wide shooting arsenic erstwhile 4 oregon much radical person been shot, excluding the shooter.

What they're saying: "I privation to guarantee the assemblage of Monterey Park and the broader country that we volition enactment you successful each mode we can," Biden said. "Even arsenic we proceed searching for answers astir this attack, we cognize however profoundly this onslaught has impacted the AAPI community."

Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) said astatine the Sunday evening quality league the section assemblage "was successful fearfulness reasoning that they should not spell to immoderate events due to the fact that determination was an progressive shooter," but they could present consciousness safe.

• "It is horrible that specified a happening could hap astatine a clip of solemnisation for truthful galore successful the AAPI assemblage and successful the Asian assemblage worldwide," she said.

Photo: California Gov. Gavin Newsom/Twitter

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass tweeted, "Families merit to observe the holidays successful bid — wide shootings and weapon unit are a plague connected our communities."

Monterey Park Mayor Henry Lo, offering condolences to the shooting victims and their families astatine a Sunday quality conference, said: "It is important that we beryllium determination for them, to supply services and enactment they request successful what volition beryllium a clip of healing successful the adjacent weeks, months, if not years."

Vice President Kamala Harris said astatine an lawsuit Sunday that astatine a clip of a taste celebration, "yet different assemblage has been torn isolated by senseless weapon violence" arsenic she paid tribute to those affected by the latest calamity and added she grieved "for those galore radical whose lives are everlastingly changed."

Stop AAPI Hate issued a statement Sunday, calling the shooting "devastating beyond words."

— Stop AAPI Hate statement

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Editor's note: This nonfiction has been updated with further details throughout.