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On Sunday, police in Southern California launched a massive manhunt for an Asian man suspected of opening fire at a nightclub during the Lunar New Year celebrations in Los Angeles, killing 10 people and injuring at least 10 before he fled.
“A male suspect has fled and is being sought,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff said. angelsRobert Luna, at a press conference in Monterey Parkcity near los angels where the massacre took place.
He warned that the description of the alleged assailant was still preliminary and did not provide more detailed information that would allow him to be identified. According to witnesses, he randomly fired a semi-automatic weapon.
Law enforcement responded to the first emergency calls on Saturday at 22:20 (0620 GMT on Sunday) and found people fleeing the scene. At the disco, 10 victims, five women and five men, were pronounced dead.
Luna said 10 of the wounded have been taken to various hospitals and are in stable or critical condition. He said he did not believe the shooter used an assault rifle, but did not specify what kind of weapon it was.
The sheriff also described a second incident in the nearby city of Alhambra about 20 minutes later, when an Asian man with a gun entered the dance hall but was knocked down and disarmed. He fled and no injuries were reported.
Luna said it is investigating whether the incidents are related.
AT Monterey Parklocated about 13 km east of downtown Los angelsAccording to an AFP reporter, officials cordoned off the crime scene and set up a security perimeter around the area, where most of the signs are in Chinese.
A helicopter full of television trucks flew over the area, and a banner commemorating the coming of the Year of the Rabbit was still hanging at the entrance to the city.
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Monterey Park is home to about 60,000 people, most of whom are Asians or Asian Americans.
US President Joe Biden tweeted that he and his wife, Jill, were “praying for the dead and injured” and assured that he was “monitoring the situation closely.”
The shooting became the deadliest in the United States since the Uvalde, Texas massacre that killed 22 people at an elementary school on May 24.
Wong Wei, who lives in Monterey Park, told Los angels Times that her friend went to that disco and was in the bathroom when the shots started.
When he got out, he saw a man with a long pistol who was shooting indiscriminately, as well as the bodies of three people, two of them women, and he identified the other as a nightclub manager.
The newspaper reported that Seung Won Choi, the owner of a seafood restaurant near the scene of the murder, said that three people ran into his restaurant and told him to lock the door.
The three said that there was a man with a semi-automatic weapon who had several rounds of ammunition and who reloaded every time they ran out, Choi told the newspaper.
Previously, tens of thousands of people gathered for the Chinese New Year celebration, which is one of the largest in Southern California. The second day of celebrations, this Sunday, was canceled after the attack.
Judy Chu, the first Chinese-American woman elected to the US Congress and former mayor of Monterey Park, said on Twitter that she was “devastated by the victims, their families and the people of her hometown.”
“Too early”
Andrew Meyer of the sheriff’s office said detectives didn’t know if the suspect knew his victims or was pursuing a specific group.
“It is too early to tell during the course of the investigation whether this incident was a hate crime or not,” he said.
AT United States of America More than 7,000 hate crimes were reported in 2021, affecting more than 9,000 people, according to the Department of Justice.
Two-thirds of these crimes were racially related.
Gun violence is a big problem in the United States, where, according to the website of the Archive of Gun Violence, there were 647 mass shootings last year, defined as incidents involving four or more people who were shot or killed, not counting the shooter. .
In 2022, more than 44 thousand people died from gunshot wounds in the country, more than half of them committed suicide.
America has more guns than people: one in three adults owns at least one gun, and nearly one in two adults lives in a house with guns. (According to AFP)
Source: RPP
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