A mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park left 10 dead. The suspect is at large and police are investigating. Here's what we know.
On Saturday afternoon, thousands were celebrating the Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park, a city at the heart of Los Angeles County’s Chinese community.on West Garvey Avenue, which is near where the festival took place. Here is what we know about the mass shooting that left 10 dead and 10 wounded:Few details have emerged. But one Monterey Park resident, Wong Wei, said a friend was in the bathroom when the shooting started.
Seung Won Choi, who owns a seafood barbecue restaurant on Garvey Avenue, said three people rushed into his restaurant and told him to lock the door. The shooter, they said, had multiple rounds of ammunition, so that once his ammunition ran out he reloaded, Choi said. When police arrived, officers found “numerous individuals, patrons ... pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims,” L.A. County sheriff’s Capt. Andrew Meyer said.There has been no formal identity of victims so far. Officials said they don’t know if any of the victims were specifically targeted by the gunman.
Asked if the case was being investigated as a hate crime, Luna said: “Everything is on the table... Who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people?”That also remains unclear. People came from around the region for the festival, which is considered one of the biggest in L.A. County. But it had ended for the day before the shooting.
The festival had been scheduled to conclude Sunday. But the day’s events are canceled “out of an abundance of caution and in reverence for the victims,” Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese said.
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