According to media reports, several people were killed or injured by gunfire at a Chinese New Year celebration in the Los Angeles area. The “Los Angeles Times” wrote that there were several deaths according to police radio. According to eyewitnesses, a man shot himself with an automatic rifle.
The incident took place on Saturday night, shortly after 10 pm (local time, 7 am CET on Sunday) in Monterey Park, an eastern suburb of the Pacific metropolis in the US state of California. According to the newspaper report, it was not yet clear whether there had been any arrests. The owner of a restaurant near the crime scene said three people rushed into his house and asked him to lock the door. They said the sniper carried so much ammunition that he could reload multiple times.