People speak of shooter with machine gun at incident in Monterey Park, which has large Asian population
Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late on Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a lunar new year celebration that attracted thousands, police said.
Sgt Bob Boese of the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department said the shooting was reported at 10.22pm and occurred at a business on Garvey Avenue in Monterey Park. The shooter was male, Boese said early on Sunday.