What we know about Monterey Park shooting, suspect, victims?

The suspect shot himself after killing 10 individuals at a dance membership within the Los Angeles space.

Authorities are looking for what motivated the gunman who killed 10 individuals at a Los Angeles-area dance membership throughout Lunar New Yr celebrations on Saturday night.

The suspect was discovered lifeless on Sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a van wherein authorities say he fled after individuals thwarted his try at a second taking pictures.

The taking pictures was the nation’s fifth mass killing this month. It was additionally the deadliest assault since Might 24, when 21 individuals have been killed in an elementary college in Uvalde, Texas.

Here's what we all know in regards to the taking pictures to date:

What occurred and when?

• A gunman shot lifeless 10 individuals late on Saturday at a ballroom dance membership in Monterey Park throughout a Lunar New Yr celebration within the Los Angeles space, United States.
• Police mentioned individuals have been “pouring out of the placement screaming” when officers arrived on the venue at about 10:30pm (06:30 GMT Sunday).
• Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese mentioned officers arrived on the scene inside three minutes of receiving the decision.
• About 20 to half-hour after the primary assault, the gunman entered the Lai Lai Ballroom within the close by metropolis of Alhambra. However patrons wrested the weapon away from him and witnesses mentioned he fled in a white van, in keeping with Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.

The place did the taking pictures occur?

• The mass taking pictures occurred on the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Garvey Avenue in Monterey Park, a majority Asian American metropolis on the jap fringe of Los Angeles.

• The taking pictures occurred within the coronary heart of its downtown the place pink lanterns adorned the streets for the Lunar New Yr festivities.
  

Who's the suspect?

• Police recognized the person as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and mentioned he shot himself as police approached the van he was in, within the city of Torrance, 12 hours after the taking pictures occurred. Torrance lies southwest of Monterey Park and can be house to many Asian People.
• Luna informed reporters that no different suspects have been at giant and that the motive behind the assault remained unclear.
• The suspect was carrying what Luna described as a semi-automatic pistol with an prolonged journal, and a second handgun was found within the van the place Tran died.

How many individuals died and have been injured?

• Police mentioned 10 individuals – 5 males and 5 girls – died on the scene, whereas 10 others have been wounded, seven of whom are nonetheless hospitalised. Luna mentioned their situations vary “from steady to vital”.

Who're the victims?

• Talking at a Sunday night information convention, the sheriff mentioned he didn’t have their precise ages however that all the individuals killed seemed to be over 50. Their identities haven't been made public.