US police said that the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a shooting in the western US city of Monterey Park shot himself while security forces were tracking and besieging him.

Eyewitnesses said that a gunman opened fire on Saturday evening at a group of Chinese New Year's celebrants in a club in the city, before fleeing.

And the Los Angeles Police reported yesterday, Sunday, that the suspect is of Asian descent (72 years), and announced that he was found dead after committing suicide in a car that the police were tracking, and a long process to track down the shooter ended just over 40 kilometers from the city where the shooting took place. .

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the suspect, identified as Hou Kan Tran, was the only suspect in the shooting, adding that the motive behind the attack on Chinese New Year was not yet known, and the investigation was underway. is still in progress.

Monterey Park is home to one of the largest Asian communities in the United States.

In addition to the dead (5 women and 5 men), at least 10 others were wounded in the indiscriminate shooting, according to eyewitnesses.

Another incident

The Los Angeles County Sheriff spoke of a second incident in the city of Alhambra, which occurred approximately 20 minutes after the attack in Monterey Park. An Asian man with a gun entered a discotheque, but he was trapped and disarmed.

The man fled, and no injuries were reported.

Los Angeles Police Chief Robert Luna said investigators are looking into whether the two incidents are related.

Flags at half mast

US President Joe Biden ordered flags to be flown at half mast in public buildings to mourn the victims of the Monterey Park attack, and the Canadian Prime Minister sent his condolences, tweeting, "My heart breaks for the residents of Monterey Park."

Gun violence is a major crisis in the United States, with more than 600 shootings targeting a group of people in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

More than 44,000 people died of gunshot wounds in 2022, and more than half of them committed suicide.

One in 3 adults in the United States owns at least one gun, and one in two adults lives in a household with a gun.