A shooting at a Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods, in California's Orange County, 80 kilometers from Los Angeles, has caused one death and four seriously injured, according to local authorities.
A fifth person has also been slightly injured after the incident recorded minutes before 1:30 p.m. (local time).
"Agents are responding to an emergency call inside the church," reported the police office, which has confirmed that the arrest of a suspect and the seizure of a weapon, of which the type or caliber is unknown .
The incident comes a day after an 18-year-old white man opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket killing 10 people, mainly African-Americans, in what is considered a racist attack.
All the victims of the California shooting are adults.
Their ages have not been specified.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office interviewed just over 30 people this afternoon from a Taiwanese congregation that was inside the temple at the time of the shooting.
The church had celebrated a mass shortly before when several shots were heard, according to eyewitness accounts collected by the
Los Angeles Times.
The attack occurred in Laguna Woods, a south county town of 18,000, an upper-middle-class enclave in southeastern California.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that his government is closely following the incident and that state authorities have come to support local ones.
Agents from the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have also appeared at the scene of the shooting to help, although the authorities have not yet explained what the shooter's motives could be.
“No one should be afraid in the place where they profess their faith.
Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the community," Governor Newsom wrote on Twitter.
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