Monterey Park

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Multiple casualties, some fatalities, reported after shooting in ... (Los Angeles Times)

Police were responding to reports of a shooting that resulted in multiple casualties in Monterey Park on Saturday night, according to a law enforcement ...

He went to the scene of the shooting and saw one person being put on a stretcher. Tens of thousands had gathered Saturday for the start of a two-day festival, one of the largest Lunar New Year events in the region. But he said he saw that the festival had already been cleaned up for the day when he arrived. Earlier in the day, crowds were enjoying skewers and shopping for Chinese food and jewelry. near the site of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. The shooter, they said, had multiple rounds of ammunition on him, so that once his ammunition ran out he reloaded, Choi said.

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Reports of mass shooting following Chinese New Year celebrations ... (ABC News)

Police are attending a shooting in Monterey Park, California, that left multiple casualties, the Los Angeles Times reports, citing a law enforcement source.

The shooting took place after 10pm (4pm AEST) around the location of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration held in Monterey Park, the newspaper reported. - The shooting took place after 10pm (4pm AEST) around the location of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration held in Monterey Park Police are attending a shooting in Monterey Park in California following reports of multiple casualties, the Los Angeles Times says, citing a law enforcement source on Saturday night (local time).

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Multiple Dead in Shooting in Monterey Park, Calif. (The New York Times)

The attack took place in a city just east of Los Angeles that had held public festivities on Saturday to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Monterey Park, with a population of around 60,000 people, is around 65 percent Asian American and 27 percent Hispanic or Latino, according to government data. The suspected shooter was a man, the sheriff’s department said, but it did not say whether he was in custody or still at large. The The shooting occurred around 10:20 p.m. Police officers were responding to a shooting in Monterey Park, Calif., in a neighborhood that had held festivities on the eve of the Lunar New Year. At least 10 people were killed in a shooting late Saturday in Monterey Park, Calif., just east of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

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'Multiple casualties' after mass shooting during Lunar New Year ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The shooting took place after 10pm local time near Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Monterey Park.

The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.” The database defines a mass killing as four people killed, not including the perpetrator. We’re right in the middle of the city, but it’s really safe.” On Saturday, its website said, it was hosting an event called “Star Night” from 8 pm to 11:30 pm. It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The suspect in both cases was described as an Asian male. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert 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. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. 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. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations.

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Nine dead in mass shooting in Monterey Park, California (The New Daily)

“Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide detectives are responding to assist Monterey Park Police Department with a shooting death investigation. There are nine ...

The Los Angeles Times quoted the owner of a nearby restaurant as saying people who sought shelter in his property told him there was a man with a machine gun in the area. Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting in the city of Monterey Park, California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says. “Our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones tonight in our neighbouring city, Monterey Park, where a mass shooting just occurred,” Los Angeles City controller Kenneth Mejia said in a tweet.

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