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At least 10 dead in a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California

22 January 2023 20:46 (UTC +04:00)

At least 10 people are dead and another 10 hospitalized after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, APA reports citing CNN.

The attack happened at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year festival celebration.

The gunman fled and "remains outstanding," the sheriff's department said. Authorities said the shooter was a man but have not released a detailed description.

Monterey Park is a city in Los Angeles County’s San Gabriel Valley, approximately seven miles from downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the gunman "remains outstanding."

"We are here to tell you that we are utilizing every resource to apprehend this suspect, in what we believe to be the county's most heinous cases. Our local state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together to better serve the residents here of Los Angeles County and to apprehend this attacker," the sheriff said at a news conference Sunday.

"We need to get this person off the street as soon as possible," Luna said.

Preliminarily, Luna said the suspect has been described as an Asian man between the ages of 30 and 50, but law enforcement have “gotten different descriptions of one suspect.”