Ten people have been killed and at least 10 others injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, Los Angeles in the United States. The incident occurred on Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The shooting occurred near the site of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. Tens of thousands had gathered Saturday for the start of a two-day festival, one of the largest Lunar New Year events in the region.
The incident occurred on Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The mass shooting, one of California’s worst in recent memory, happened in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue at around 10:22 p.m., sheriff’s Capt. Andrew Meyer told reporters Sunday morning, a report by Los Angeles Times said. “When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons ... pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims,” Meyer said.
Meyer said investigators don’t know whether the victims were targeted. He said it was too early to know whether the shooting was a hate crime. “We will look at every angle,” Meyer said. Meyer said he’s aware of some kind of incident in the neighbouring suburb of Alhambra, north of Monterey Park, “and we have investigators on scene trying to determine if there’s a connection between these two incidents.
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