United States: deadly shooting in a majority Asian city in California

Monterey Park, suburb of Los Angeles, California: on the night of Saturday to Sunday, a heavily armed man, according to witnesses, killed a dozen people and injured several others, according to a still provisional report.

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At least ten people were killed in a shooting that occurred Saturday evening January 21 in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles, in a city mainly populated by people of Asian origin, announced this Sunday the authorities responsible for the forces of the 'order.

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Specialist investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office are " 

assisting Monterey Park Police in an investigation into a fatal shooting

 ," according to a statement.

The alleged shooter is a man, the statement added.

The suspect has fled the scene and remains nowhere to be found

 ," Los Angeles Sheriff's Office Capt. Andrew Meyer told reporters in Monterey Park.

Law enforcement officers walk to the scene of a shooting after holding a briefing in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. AP - Jae C. Hong

During the Lunar New Year

The shooting occurred near a location where the Lunar New Year had just been celebrated in Monterey Park, a city of some 61,000 mostly Asians, located about 8 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Angeles.

According to press reports, the shooting occurred in a dance hall on Saturday evening, an hour after the Lunar New Year holiday.

A resident of the city, Wong Wei, told the

Los Angeles Times

that his friend was in the club and was in the bathroom when the shots broke out.

When she came out, she saw an armed man and three bodies - two women and a person he identified as the club boss.

10 people killed, 10 injured in mass shooting at Monterey Park dance studio https://t.co/52Nl55fZif

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 22, 2023

It is still dark in California;

it is 4am (12:00 UT) in the morning in Los Angeles, but the country will wake up in horror from this new shooting.

In 2021, 49,000 people

died from gunshot wounds in the country.

(and with agencies)

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