MONTEREY PARK, Jan 23 — The gunman believed to have killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in California shot himself dead as police moved in to arrest him, the...
MONTEREY PARK, Jan 23 — The gunman believed to have killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in California shot himself dead as police moved in to arrest him, the local sheriff said Sunday.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said over the following hours police tracked a wanted van, which was later reported in Torrance, several miles south.“The suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene,” Luna said.Luna said the reason behind the horrific attack, which came as Asian communities around the world celebrated Lunar New Year, the most important holiday of the calendar, remained a mystery.
Sheriff’s deputies in Monterey Park remained at the scene Sunday, an AFP reporter said, with decorations erected for the Lunar New Year hanging incongruously by the police tape.reported that Seung Won Choi, who owns a nearby restaurant, said three people had run into the establishment and told him to lock the door.
“My heart is broken for the victims, their families, and the people of my hometown,” Representative Judy Chu, a former mayor of Monterey Park, said on Twitter. “While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds,” Biden said in a statement.
The US Department of Justice said there were over 7,000 reported hate crimes in the United States in 2021, two-thirds of them race-related.
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