Monterey Park is a metropolis in Los Angeles county. (Representational)
Police have been attending a capturing in Monterey Park, California with a number of casualities on Saturday night time, the Los Angeles Occasions reported, citing a regulation enforcement supply.
The capturing befell after 10 p.m. (0600 GMT) across the location of a Chinese language Lunar New 12 months celebration held in Monterey Park, the newspaper mentioned.
It was not clear how many individuals had been injured or killed, or if the suspect was nonetheless at massive.
Tens of hundreds of individuals had attended the competition earlier within the day.
Footage posted on social media confirmed emergency employees treating casualties on the scene and police guarding cordoned- off streets.
The LA Occasions quoted the proprietor of a close-by restaurant as saying that individuals who sought shelter in his property instructed him there was a person with a machine gun within the space.
Seung Gained Choi instructed the newspaper that he believed the capturing befell at a dance membership.
Monterey Park is a metropolis in Los Angeles county, round 7 miles (11 km) from downtown Los Angeles.
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