Police were attending a shooting in Monterey Park, California with multiple casualities on Saturday night, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a law enforcement source.
The shooting took place after 10 p.m. around the location of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration held in Monterey Park, the newspaper said.Tens of thousands of people had attended the festival earlier in the day.
Footage posted on social media showed emergency staff treating casualties on the scene and police guarding cordoned- off streets. The LA Times quoted the owner of a nearby restaurant as saying that people who sought shelter in his property told him there was a man with a machine gun in the area.Monterey Park is a city in Los Angeles county, around 7 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
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