Monterey Park: What we know about the mass shooting

On Saturday afternoon, hundreds have been celebrating the Lunar New 12 months pageant in Monterey Park, a metropolis on the coronary heart of Los Angeles County’s Chinese language neighborhood.

The pageant ended round 9 p.m. An hour later, gunfire erupted inside a dance ballroom on Garvey Avenue, which is close to the place the pageant passed off. Here’s what we all know in regards to the mass taking pictures that left 10 useless and 10 wounded:

What occurred contained in the ballroom?

• Few particulars have emerged. However one Monterey Park resident, Wong Wei, mentioned a pal was within the lavatory when the taking pictures began. She got here out, she noticed a gunman and three our bodies — two girls and one one who was the boss of the membership.

• Seung Received Choi, who owns a seafood barbecue restaurant on Garvey Avenue, mentioned three folks rushed into his restaurant and informed him to lock the door. The shooter, they mentioned, had a number of rounds of ammunition, so that after his ammunition ran out he reloaded, Choi mentioned.
• When police arrived, officers discovered “quite a few people, patrons … pouring out of the situation, screaming. The officers made entry to the situation and situated further victims,” L.A. County sheriff’s Capt. Andrew Meyer mentioned.

What do we all know in regards to the victims?

• There was no formal identification of victims to this point. Officers mentioned they don’t know if any of the victims have been particularly focused by the gunman.

What will we find out about a motive?

• It’s unclear if authorities know the identification of the suspect. They’ve mentioned they know of a motive.

Is there a connection to the Lunar New 12 months?

• That additionally stays unclear. Folks got here from across the area for the pageant, which is taken into account one of many greatest in L.A. County. But it surely had ended for the day earlier than the taking pictures.

• The pageant had been scheduled to conclude Sunday. However the day’s occasions are canceled “out of an abundance of warning and in reverence for the victims,” Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese mentioned.