Update….
The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded at least 10 others at a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, Calif., shot and killed himself after being pulled over for a traffic stop, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said late Sunday….
Mass shooting’s continue in America…..
Police officers were scouring the Los Angeles area on Sunday in an urgent manhunt for the gunman who killed 10 people and wounded at least 10 others at a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, Calif., hours earlier. The authorities offered no motive for the rampage, but were investigating whether it was connected to an apparently thwarted attack at another dance studio a few miles away.
Here are the details:
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the authorities were looking for an Asian man between 30 to 50 years old. He called the shooting, which killed five men and five women, one of the county’s “most heinous cases,” and added, “We need to get this person off the street as soon as possible.”
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The shooting started around 10:20 p.m. Saturday on West Garvey Avenue, a main thoroughfare of Monterey Park that earlier in the day had hosted a festival celebrating the eve of the Lunar New Year, a major holiday in many Asian communities. Read about horrified reaction from the community.
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About 20 minutes after the attack, an armed man walked into another dance hall in the neighboring city of Alhambra and was disarmed by people inside before fleeing, Sheriff Luna said. He did not identify the weapon that was seized.
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Monterey Park, about seven miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a population of about 60,000 people, about 65 percent of whom are Asian American, according to government data. In the 1990s, the city claimed to have become the first in the continental United States to have a majority of residents with Asian ancestry.
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The mass shooting was the deadliest in the United States since last May, when 19 children and two teachers were killed in a massacre inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. There have been 33 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Here is a list of some high-profile mass shootings……