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Ten people have been reportedly killed and 10 others injured as a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, Los Angeles, United States of America.
The incident, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, happened on January 21, 2023, close to the site of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration.
It was learned that people crowded the area on Saturday night over the commencement of a two-day festival Lunar New Year events.
According to Los Angeles Times, the incident was 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.
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According to Meyer, “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 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 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.”
Law enforcement were on scene at the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio on the 100 block of South Garfield Avenue in Alhambra Sunday morning. It was not clear if the police activity at that site was the same one referenced by Meyer.
Seung Won Choi, who owns a seafood barbecue restaurant on Garvey Avenue across from where the shooting happened, said three people rushed into his restaurant and told him to lock the door.
They told him that there was a man with a semiautomatic gun in the area. They said the shooter had multiple rounds of ammunition on him, so that once his ammunition ran out he reloaded, Choi said.
