Police said the suspect in the killing of at least 10 people at a dance studio in Monterey Park was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday afternoon as officers closed in on his vehicle following a furious manhunt.
, whether a gun is bought from a licensed dealer or from someone posting an ad online.
Chu said the violence will deepen a sense of insecurity in the community, which was already grappling with the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic.Police in cities across the country, including San Francisco, New York, Houston and Washington said they would increase security and patrols at Lunar New Year events.
“It was chaos,” Wiese said. Some of the responding officers had only been on the job for a few months, he added. They encountered carnage that “none of them had been prepared for.”
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