At least 10 people were killed and a dozen more injured in a mass shooting Saturday night at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California
Saturday night at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, a predominantly Asian community that was celebrating the Lunar New Year.
“Officers from the Monterey Park Police Department responded to a local business in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue in the city of Monterey Park regarding a shots fired call,” Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said at a early Sunday morning press conference. “When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons of the location pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims.”
The shooting occurred at approximately 10:22 p.m. local time, roughly 80 minutes after the city’s annual Lunar New Year celebration — which draws about 100,000 people to the city of 60,000, 65-percent of whom are Asian — had concluded at 9 p.m. Police said the site of the shooting was a ballroom dance studio, andAccording to police, the suspect, a male subject, “fled the scene and remains outstanding.” “We will look at every angle as far as whether it was a hateor not.
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