Los Angeles Chinese Lunar Year Mass shooting: 10 dead and 10 injured.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that 10 individuals were killed and at least 10 more were hurt after a shooter opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night.

According to the sheriff’s Capt. Andrew Meyer, the mass shooting, one of the bloodiest in California in recent memory, occurred in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue at roughly 10:22 p.m. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the shooting took place roughly seven miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

Only a few details were known about the culprit, who is a male and currently at large. Both a motivation and a description of the shooter are unknown.

“When officers arrived on the scene, they saw a large number of people, customers, rushing out of the establishment, and shouting. The officers arrived at the scene and discovered more victims,” Meyer added.

Ten of the victims were declared dead at the spot by firefighters, according to Meyer. At least ten more people were sent to a number of nearby hospitals, and their health statuses varied from stable to critical.

Meyer stated that the victims may not have been specifically targeted. To determine whether the shooting was a hate crime, he argued, was premature. We’ll examine all possibilities, Meyer said. Meyer said the only description of the utilized weapon was that it was a rifle.

North of Monterey Park, in the nearby neighborhood of Alhambra, there has apparently been some sort of incident, according to Meyer, who added that “investigators are on the scene attempting to ascertain if there’s a connection between these two instances.”

About two miles north of the Monterey Park incident, in Alhambra, on the 100 block of South Garfield Avenue, law enforcement was present at the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio. It was unclear if the police activity Meyer mentioned had actually taken place at that location.

The owner of a seafood BBQ restaurant on Garvey Avenue across from the scene of the shooting, Seung Won Choi, claimed that three guys barged into his business and ordered him to close the door.

They claimed that a man with a semiautomatic weapon was nearby. They claimed that the shooter carried several rounds of ammo, so when his supply ran low, he reloaded, according to Choi.

A neighboring resident named Wong Wei claimed that his companion had attended the dance club that evening along with a handful of her pals. The shooting began when his pal was in the restroom.

Wei claimed that when the woman emerged, she discovered a shooter and three bodies: two of them were ladies and the third was the club’s manager. Around 11 p.m., he claimed, his friend made her way to her house.

His friends informed him that the gunman was brandishing a long rifle and looked to fire randomly.

They flee because they don’t know what he said.

The incident took place close to where Chinese New Year festivities were taking place. One of the biggest Lunar New Year celebrations in the area began on Saturday with tens of thousands of people attending.

Crowds were eating skewers and shopping for jewelry and Chinese food earlier in the day. The New Year festivities began on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

John, 27, who wished to remain anonymous, resides close to the shooting scene. Around 10 p.m., when he arrived home, he reported hearing four or five gunshots. He then heard the sound of police cars “smashing” along the street. Around 11:20 p.m., he walked downstairs to see if the shooting had taken place at the New Year’s festival.

My initial worry was that they were celebrating the Lunar New Year, he continued. However, he claimed that when he arrived, he found that the festival had already been cleaned up for the day. When he arrived at the gunshot scene, he observed one person being carried away on a stretcher. Another person’s arm was bandaged.

Social media videos displayed police and fire trucks swarming a location on Garvey Avenue and attending to casualties.

Numerous nearby hospitals received injured patients.

Many people in the region were surprised by the violence.

Around 12:30 a.m., Edwin Chen, a 47-year-old dispatcher from Woodland Hills, hurried over to Monterey Park after learning the news. According to Chen, a dozen of his acquaintances and family still reside in the neighborhood where he grew up.

He expressed his sadness that this occurred as the neighborhood was celebrating the Lunar New Year.

He said, “This is supposed to be a pleasant moment. “I want to learn as much as I can. Even now, it’s shocking.

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia, the first Asian American to hold a position of authority at the municipal level in Los Angeles, posted on Twitter, “Our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones tonight in our neighboring city, Monterey Park, where a horrific shooting has occurred.”

Asian Americans make up the bulk of the population of Monterey Park, a 61,000-person city in the San Gabriel Valley. According to census data, the suburb east of Los Angeles has a population that is 65% Asian American, 27% Latino, and 6% white.

Monterey Park, one of the San Gabriel Valley’s main suburbs, is home to several Asian American-owned stores and eateries.

The two-day Lunar New Year extravaganza at Monterey Park was supposed to end on Sunday. However, the activities scheduled for that day have been postponed “out of an excess of caution and in respect for the victims,” according to Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese.

One of the worst mass shootings in contemporary Los Angeles County history occurred in Monterey Park. On Christmas Eve in 2008, a guy disguised as Santa Claus stormed a residence in Covina with five firearms, carrying out one of the last large-scale shootings. In that shooting spree, nine people were slain, including the ex-wife and parents of the shooter. A few hours after the shootings, the shooter committed suicide.

Other notable mass shootings in California include the 1984 massacre at a San Ysidro McDonald’s, where a gunman killed 21 people, and the 2015 terrorist assault in San Bernardino, which left 14 people dead.

A 10-month-old baby, her 16-year-old mother, and a grandmother were among the six people killed in the Central Valley farming town of Goshen in Tulare County just five days prior to the massacre that took place on Saturday.