Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told The Los Angeles Times that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door. The latest violence comes two months after five people were killed at a Colorado Springs nightclub. since the start of the year but is also the deadliest since - when 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas, according to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S. The tragedy marked not just the fifth mass killing in the U.S. "Chinese people, they consider Chinese New Year very, very special" - a time when "you don't do anything that will bring bad luck the entire year." Wynn Liaw, 57, who lives about two blocks from the Monterey Park studio, said she was shocked that such a crime would happen, especially during New Year's celebrations. Los Angeles County sheriff Robert Luna takes questions from the media outside the Civic Center in Monterey Park on Sunday. Two days of festivities were planned but officials cancelled Sunday's events following the shooting. The celebration in the city is one of the largest Lunar New Year events in Southern California. Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed Monterey Park suspect Huu. Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people that sits at the eastern edge of Los Angeles. About two-thirds of the residents are Asian American. Brandon Tsay speaks with CNNs Anderson Cooper about the Monterey Park shooting on Monday, January 23, 2023. "I can tell you that the suspect walked in there, probably with the intent to kill more people, and two brave community members decided they were going to jump into action and disarm him," Luna said. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Monday afternoon identified two more victims of the shooting at a dance hall in Monterey Park, Calif. The suspect entered the Alhambra club with a gun, and people wrested the weapon away from him before he fled, Luna said. Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra. Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. Police officers stand outside a ballroom dance club in Monterey Park, on Sunday after a mass shooting took place inside the previous night. Officers heard a single gunshot from the van as they approached, then fell back and called for a SWAT team. Prosecutors are preparing to present evidence to a grand jury against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie in New Mexico. The sheriff said that Tran turned a handgun on himself on Sunday as police approached a white van he was driving in Torrance, about 34 kilometres from the site of the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif. "I still have questions in my mind, which is: What was the motive for this shooter? Did he have a mental illness? Was he a domestic violence abuser? How did he gets these guns and was it through legal means or not?" Congresswoman Judy Chu said. The weapon suspected to have been used was identified as a magazine-fed semi-automatic assault pistol, which was also found in the van. He added that the motive for the attack, which wounded 10 more, remained unclear. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the man as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and said no other suspects were at large. That’s already eight more than the 34 mass shootings recorded last January-the most in a given January since at least 2014, when the GVA started tracking mass shooting data.The hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance hall ended Sunday when authorities found the suspect dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the van he used to flee the scene of a second attempted attack. so far this month, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which considers a mass shooting an event with four or more injuries or deaths. That’s how many mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. An official motive has not yet been established in either event, though the man who police believe carried out the shooting at a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay admitted to carrying out the massacre, saying he has endured years of bullying and suffers from a mental illness. The alleged gunman in Half Moon Bay, who faces seven counts of first-degree murder, as well as the suspect in the Monterey Park shooting were both 65 years old. One more person was killed last week in a shooting in Oakland. The shooting comes less than a week after an alleged gunman opened fire at two locations in Half Moon Bay, California, killing seven people, and after another suspected shooter killed 11 people at a dance hall in Monterey Park, California. This is a developing story and will be updated.
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