Thousands of people had earlier gathered in the city for the Monterey Park Lunar New Year festival
Multiple casualties have been reported after a shooting during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in California.
Police are responding to the attack, with upsetting footage on social media appearing to show officers surrounding the area and firefighters treating victims, the Mirror reports.At the moment there is scant information on what happened and the number of fatalities, however, internal police communications said there had been some deaths.
They said the gunman had multiple rounds of ammunition on him so that once his ammunition ran out, the shooter reloaded, Choi said. A 27-year-old man, Josh, who declined to give his last name, also told the LA Times he heard about four or five gunshots.
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