WATCH LIVE: Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department give an update on the Monterey Park mass shooting investigation.
Within three minutes of receiving the call, officers arrived at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, according to Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese."When they came into the parking lot, it was chaos," Wiese said.
About 20 minutes after the first attack, the gunman entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in the nearby city of Alhambra. Brandon Tsay was in the lobby at the time, and he told ABC's "Good Morning America" that he thought he was going to die. "Something came over me. I realized I needed to get the weapon away from him, I needed to take this weapon, disarm him or else everybody would have died," Tsay said. "When I got the courage, I lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle." Once Tsay seized the gun, he pointed it at the man and shouted: "Get the hell out of here, I'll shoot, get away, go!" The assailant paused, but then headed back to his van, and Tsay called the police, the gun still in his hand. While Luna told reporters on Sunday that two people wrested the weapon away from the attacker, Tsay, who works a few days a week at the dance hall his grandparents started, told The New York Times that he acted alone. Stills from security footage shown on "Good Morning America" showed only the two men struggling for the gun.After surrounding the vehicle for hours, law enforcement officials swarmed and entered it. A person's body appeared to be slumped over the wheel and was later removed. Members of a SWAT team looked through the van's contents before walking away. Congresswoman Judy Chu said she still has questions about the attack but hopes residents now feel safe. "The community was in fear thinking that they should not go to any events because there was an active shooter," Chu said Sunday at a news conference. "What was the motive for this shooter?" she said. "Did he have a mental illness? Was he a domestic violence abuser? How did he get these guns and was it through legal means or not?" Governor Gavin Newsom toured Monterey Park on Monday passionately calling for gun reform and lamenting the "rise and repeat" motions that country goes through between mass shootings. "The number one killer, the number one killer of our kids last year was guns, the hell's wrong with us," he said. "I'm not saying take everybody's guns, and stop that the extreme back and forth is damn common sense common dignity." "The reason I haven't done all the damn press conferences yesterday , I was here the whole day. It's I can't do those again. I can't keep doing the same the same thing over and over again. I mean, it's insane," he added. Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed "Happy Year of the Rabbit!" The celebration in Monterey Park is one of California's largest. Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday's events following the shooting. An Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S. shows that 2022 was one of the nation's worst years, with 42 such attacks - the second-highest number since the creation of the tracker in 2006. The database defines a mass killing as four people killed, not including the perpetrator.Associated Press journalists Andrew Dalton, Jae C. Hong and Eugene Garcia in Los Angeles and Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to this report.Related Topics
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