He struggles with the shooter and, despite the punches he receives, manages to snatch the gun. It is the heroic performance of the man who managed to reduce the author of the shooting that killed 11 people this weekend in Monterey Park (Los Angeles, California), during the Chinese New Year celebration.
A brave performance prevented more fatalities and that it was recorded on video, as can be seen in the images that illustrate these lines.
The events occurred on Saturday night, when a 72-year-old man opened fire in a ballroom, precisely when thousands of people gathered a few meters from the premises for the Chinese New Year celebration, since Monterey Park has an Asian community that accounts for more than 65% of its official census. The attacker, who was using a stolen semi-automatic pistol, he tried to attack 20 minutes later in another disco from the neighboring town of Alhambra, where he was disarmed and fled.
The attack left a dozen dead, a balance that this Monday rose to 11 fatalities after the death of one of the four injured who were hospitalized. Another of the injured remains in serious condition, while the remaining two are recovering.
Your lifeless body was found later on Sunday inside a white van after taking his life with a shot, after being intercepted in a persecution which lasted for hours and ended in the parking lots of a shopping center in Torrance, southwest of Los Angeles.
Three shootings in three days in California
The Monterey Park shooting occurred the same week that another attack in a central California town left six deadincluding a 17-year-old mother and her six-month-old baby.
Later, on Monday night, another shooting left at least one fatality and seven injured in Oakland, in the third attack of these characteristics that has occurred in the state of California in a matter of three days. This latest event took place at a gas station in that Californian city and occurred, according to the Police, during the filming of a music video.
Source: Lasexta
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