At least ten people are dead, and ten more are hospitalized after a mass shooting during a Lunar New Year Celebration in a Los Angeles suburb late Saturday night.
The shooting occurred in a dance studio in Monterey Park, a predominately Asian community about ten miles east of L.A. The gunman has not been identified or located, and the motive is unclear, police say. Law enforcement was dispatched at 10:22 p.m. Saturday after the shooter, who police say is a male, fled.
“When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons … pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Captain Andrew Meyer said.
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Meyer said that ten of the victims were pronounced dead
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