There are ten victims of the shooting that took place in a club in Monterey, California.
The police said at a press conference.
Ten other people were injured.
The killer is on the run.
Still no information on the motive.
"The killer is an Asian man and is still on the run and used a high powered assault rifle."
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said so at a press conference on the Monterey Park massacre.
"We follow every lead, we don't know if it's a hate crime or not."
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said so at a press conference on the Monterey Park massacre.
The killer was described by police as a man of Asian origin, between 30 and 50 years old.
The sheriff specified that it is still premature to establish whether the origin of the killer is a relevant element.
The shooting occurred on West Garvey Avenue around 10:22 p.m. last night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
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 killer, he added, had a rifle and appeared to be shooting indiscriminately.
Another shooting took place three kilometers from the place where ten people were killed during the Chinese New Year holidays.
Cbs news reports it.
No one was injured in this second incident, the police are investigating to see if there are any links to the Monterey massacre.
The second shooting, the outlines of which are still unclear, also took place in a Chinese ballroom in the Alhambra.
