Following a Lunar New Year celebration, a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance club in the Los Angeles area, killing ten people and wounding ten more. This sparked a manhunt for the suspect in the most recent mass shooting in an American community.
Capt. The injured were transported to hospitals, according to Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesperson Andrew Meyer, and their conditions range from stable to critical. He claimed that the Monterey Park community's ten victims perished on the spot.
When officers arrived at the scene around 10:30 p.m., Meyer said, people were "pouring out of the location screaming." He said officers went into the dance ballroom while firefighters treated the injured.
Thousands had attended the celebration of the Lunar New Year.
About 10 miles (16 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles is the city of Monterey Park, which has about 60,000 residents and a significant Asian population. According to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the United States, it was the fifth mass shooting this month and the deadliest since 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas. Two months earlier, five people were killed at a nightclub in Colorado Springs.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the proprietor of the seafood barbecue restaurant Clam House, Seung Won Choi, three individuals rushed into his establishment and instructed him to lock the door.
Choi was also informed by the people that there was a gunman with numerous rounds of ammunition on him. Choi stated that he is of the opinion that the shooting took place in a dance club. The nearby resident Wong Wei told The Los Angeles Times that his friend was in a dance club's bathroom when the shooting started that night. He claimed that when she emerged, she observed a gunman and three bodies. According to Wei, the friend then fled to his home around 11 p.m., and his friends told him that the shooter appeared to fire randomly from a long gun. They run because they don't know why, he told the newspaper.
The shooting took place close to where thousands of people had been celebrating Lunar New Year. The two-day festival, which is one of Southern California's largest Lunar New Year celebrations, kicked off on Saturday.
People were shown being loaded onto stretchers and put in ambulances in social media videos. In other photos, bloodied and bandaged victims were seen being treated in a parking lot by Monterey Park firefighters.
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