U.S. authorities on Sunday stormed a van believed to be linked to a gunman who opened fire at a dance studio in California on Saturday evening, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others.
Shortly before 1:00 pm local time (9:00 pm in Lisbon), a special SWAT police force seized a car, a white van, that was parked in a parking lot in Torrance, south of Los Angeles, just over 40 kilometers away. from Monterey Park, where the shooting took place.
At least two bullet holes were visible in the driver’s side window just before the police team pulled up, and according to the newspaper, the driver appeared to be hunched over the steering wheel.
The LA Times cites multiple police sources as saying the man committed suicide with a gun.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna has not confirmed whether the man in the van is the suspected shooter in yesterday’s massacre.
“Could this be our suspect? Maybe,” he said, quoted by the LA Times. “But right now, if we are doing our job right, we are not just looking at this situation or scenario, we are looking at all the possibilities,” he added.
Ten people died in a shooting Saturday night in Monterey Park, a city near Los Angeles, according to police. The 10 dead included five women and five men, who have not yet been identified, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff.
“At least 10 more victims were taken to the hospital,” Luna said, adding that the condition of the victims “ranges from stable to critical.”
The shooting took place around 10:00 pm local time (6:00 am Sunday in Lisbon) in an area where hundreds of people were celebrating Chinese New Year hours earlier, and was carried out by a man armed with a machine gun. , which emptied several magazines with a pistol, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Police described the prime suspect as an Asian man in his 30s and 50s.
The city of Monterey Park, located about 13 km east of Los Angeles, has about 60,000 residents, as well as a large Asian population.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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