The man who killed ten people in a club in Monterey Park may have committed suicide inside the white pickup truck that police surrounded.
The special police teams got out of their cars and surrounded the van.
Inside there would be the body of a man lying on the steering wheel.
It is likely that it is the killer but the police have not given any official confirmation.
There are ten victims of the shooting in Monterey.
Ten other people were injured.
Still no information on the motive.
"The killer is an Asian man and used a high-powered assault rifle,"
said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.
"We follow every lead, we don't know if it's a hate crime or not."
The killer was described by police as a man of Asian origin, between 30 and 50 years old.
The shooting took place on West Garvey Avenue at approximately 10:22 pm on Saturday, January 21 (7:22 am GMT).
Seung Won Choi, owner of a restaurant across the street from where the shooting occurred, told the Los Angeles Times that three people rushed into his restaurant and told him to lock the door because a man with a semi-automatic pistol in the area, who also had several rounds of ammunition with him.
Wong Wei, who lives nearby, also told the same newspaper that a friend of his had gone to a nightclub and saw a gunman and three bodies: two women and a person she said was the club director.
The Los Angeles County Police confirmed that the Monterey Park killer is the same one who broke into another establishment twenty minutes later where, fortunately, he was blocked and disarmed by customers.
