California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> called the Second Amendment a &#8220;suicide pact&#8221; in the wake of two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass shootings</a> in his state.
Speaking to CBS News&#8217; Norah O&#8217;Donnell on Monday, in the wake of the mass shooting in the city of Monterey Park, Newsom attacked the constitutionally-protected right to bear arms. He repeated claims that the U.S. is unique among the countries of the world because of mass shootings. He also took aim at high-capacity gun magazines and pushed for more restrictions on them.
&#8220;The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, it feels like,&#8221; said Newsom. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the only question the community wants [answered]: how are you going to — what about our kids when they&#8217;re going to school? What more can we do? And you know, again, we look at that all the time. I mean, we did another half-dozen gun safety bills last year, we&#8217;ll continue to find whatever loopholes we can, we&#8217;ll continue to lead the national conversation on gun safety reform.&#8221;
&#8220;And the data bears out,&#8221; Newsom added. &#8220;It works. It saves lives. California [has a] 37% lower gun death rate than the rest of the nation. And yet, with all that evidence, no one on the other side seems to give a d***. I can&#8217;t get anything done in Congress.&#8221;
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&#8220;This Second Amendment&#8217;s becoming a suicide pact, it feels like,&#8221; Gov. Gavin Newsom tells <a href="https://twitter.com/NorahODonnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NorahODonnell</a> in Monterey Park. &#8220;California&#8217;s 37% lower than the death rate of the rest of the nation, and yet, with all that evidence, no one on the other side seems to give a damn.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tSz7oawXtR">pic.twitter.com/tSz7oawXtR</a>
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1617705063295614978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
But Newsom seemed to backpedal on his remarks later in the interview, claiming that he respects lawful gun owners. &#8220;Yeah, I have great respect,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they&#8217;re locked so their kid doesn&#8217;t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one. Absolutely not. Never suggested that. That&#8217;s what they immediately do. &#8216;He wants to take away your guns.&#8217; I just want to take away weapons of war that are illegal on the streets of California and should be illegal across the United States. I mean, literally, just use common sense.&#8221;
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Newsom went on, blasting the phenomenon of mass shootings as a uniquely American problem, and took aim at high-capacity magazines. &#8220;It&#8217;s always a weapon of mass destruction, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Newsom quipped. &#8220;I mean, I get it. We can talk about the anomalous nature of this, and it certainly is. But what is also anomalous is the fact that there&#8217;s a pattern here in the United States of America, these mass shootings that don&#8217;t exist anywhere else in the world, at least the free world. And maybe that should be the fundamental focus: large-capacity clips. Just insane. There&#8217;s no justification. Period. Full stop. It&#8217;s just insane. These people are perpetuating lunacy and should be ashamed of themselves.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-dead-10-wounded-in-california-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ten people were killed</a>, and another 10 were injured, in a mass shooting during a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park Saturday night. The shooting occurred in a dance studio in the predominately Asian community, located about 10 miles east of Los Angeles. The shooter was identified as a man of Asian descent between 30 and 50 years old; he was not named by local police and will not be named in accordance with Daily Wire policy against naming mass shooters. The man was reportedly also connected to a second incident in nearby Alhambra.
Around the time Newsom was filming his CBS interview on Monday, <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-motive-sought/3137737/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another mass shooting</a> took place in the city of Half Moon Bay, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. The alleged gunman opened fire at a mushroom farm where he worked, killing four people and injuring one more, then reportedly drove to a second location where he killed three more people. He was arrested in the parking lot of the San Mateo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Monday afternoon.

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CA Gov Gavin Newsom: ‘The Second Amendment Is Becoming A Suicide Pact’ Amid Two Mass Shootings In His State

Amid Two Mass Shootings In His State, CA Governor Gavin Newsom Says 'The Second Amendment Is Becoming A Suicide Pact'

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The now-deceased suspect in this weekend&#8217;s deadly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass shooting</a> in Monterey Park, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a>, brought multiple allegations to police earlier this month, according to authorities.
Police in Hemet, California, where the alleged shooter is believed to have lived, released a statement on Monday.
The man &#8220;visited the Hemet Police Department lobby on January 7 and 9, 2023, alleging past fraud, theft, and poisoning allegations involving his family in the Los Angeles area 10 to 20 years ago,” police said.
Police added the man &#8220;stated he would return to the station with documentation regarding his allegations but never returned.”
The suspect, whom the Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety, is accused of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/23/monterey-park-california-shooting-victims-identified-list/11105457002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing 11 people and wounding several more</a> at a dance studio on Saturday night.
In the hours that followed, the suspect was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/watch-exclusive-video-captures-moment-man-disarms-monterey-park-shoote-rcna67061" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thwarted in carrying out a second attack</a> at another location and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a white van during a standoff with police, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-say-suspected-california-mass-shooter-killed-himself" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officials said Sunday</a>.
As part of an investigation, authorities conducted a search warrant at the suspect&#8217;s mobile home inside a gated senior community in Hemet, about 85 miles southeast of Monterey Park, <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/monterey-park-shooting/law-enforcement-search-hemet-home-of-monterey-park-mass-shooter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to KTLA</a>.
Investigators found a .308 caliber rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammo, and items suggesting that the suspect was building homemade firearm suppressors, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said on Monday.
Luna also said a motive has not yet been established. “We want to know as much as all of you, and we’re working very hard to attain that,&#8221; he added.
People who knew the suspect said he used to frequent the Monterey Park dance studio where the attack took place on Lunar New Year&#8217;s Eve, and he even met his ex-wife there, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/us/monterey-park-california-mass-shooting-monday/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN reported</a>. Records show the suspect filed for divorce in late 2005, which a judge approved the following year, and was an immigrant from China.

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Monterey Park Gunman Made Allegations To Police Weeks Before Attack

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Authorities on Sunday night searched the home of the 72-year-old man suspected of killing 10 and injuring 10 more in a mass shooting Saturday night in Monterey Park, California. The suspect fatally shot himself on Sunday morning.
The man, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy regarding mass shooters, opened fire inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in a predominantly Asian community about 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Of those killed, five were men, and five were women, all pronounced dead at the scene, while the 10 wounded were taken to nearby hospitals, their conditions ranging from stable to critical. Seven remain hospitalized.
Multiple law enforcement agencies swarmed the man’s home to execute the search warrant, KTLA 5 <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/law-enforcement-search-hemet-home-of-monterey-park-mass-shooter/">reported</a>. It is unclear what exactly police were searching for or what was found.
On Sunday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said during a press conference that “everything is on the table&#8221; when it comes to the motive for the shooting.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t know if this is specifically a hate crime defined by law, but who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people,&#8221; Luna said.
The suspect reportedly was a regular at the dance studio he targeted, who at times provided “informal” dance lessons, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/us/huu-can-tran-monterey-park-shooting-what-we-know/index.html">reported</a>, though it is unclear whether he had been to the studio in recent years. The outlet also noted that the suspect met his ex-wife at the same studio. The suspect reportedly saw her dancing and introduced himself, and the couple married a short time later.
The suspect filed for divorce in 2005, and it was finalized in 2006.
The ex-wife told CNN that the suspect was never violent toward her but was quick to anger. If she missed a step while dancing, he would become angry.
An acquaintance of the suspect also told the outlet that he complained back in the early 2010s that the instructors at the dance studio said “evil things about him” and reportedly didn’t like him. The friend said the suspect was “hostile to a lot of people there.”
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-say-suspected-california-mass-shooter-killed-himself">reported</a> that half an hour after the Star Ballroom shooting, the suspect attempted to enter a second dance hall, but two people managed to wrestle the gun from him. The suspect fled in a white cargo van. Authorities recovered a pistol from the scene and released a bulletin seeking the public’s help in finding the suspect.
Twelve hours later, police approached a white cargo van 20 miles southwest of Monterey Park, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mass-shooters-motive-elusive-monterey-park-mourns-10-dead-2023-01-23/">reported</a>. When officers neared the van, they heard a single gunshot from inside and found the suspect had killed himself.

After police tape was taken down, curious bystanders view the crime scene inside the Star Dance Studio Ballroom

Police Search Home Of Monterey Park Mass Shooting Suspect, Still Looking For Motive

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The suspect in a shooting that killed 10 people and injured 10 others at a Los Angeles-area dance studio fatally shot himself, authorities announced on Sunday evening.
Officials held a press conference at Monterey Park City Hall offering details about a standoff that ended hours earlier in Torrance, California, which is about 30 miles southwest of the mass shooting scene in Monterey Park where people gathered on Lunar New Year&#8217;s Eve.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said police officers pulled up Sunday morning behind a white cargo van and followed it to a shopping center parking lot. When the officers left their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant they heard a single gun shot coming from within the vehicle, Luna said. After the officers retreated and requested tactical support, a SWAT team determined the suspect had died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Luna said.
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LIVE BREAKING UPDATE: LA Sheriff press conference on Monterey Park mass shooting following standoff &#8212; <a href="https://t.co/onvrSuLQEj">https://t.co/onvrSuLQEj</a> <a href="https://t.co/FMEikNeuVW">https://t.co/FMEikNeuVW</a>
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Luna identified the suspect at the evening press conference, but The Daily Wire is not naming him in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety. Earlier, the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department <a href="https://twitter.com/LACoSheriff/status/1617241146710962178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a bulletin</a> seeking the public&#8217;s help in finding the suspect. It featured photos of the suspect and described him as adult Asian man wearing a black leather jacket, beanie, and glasses.
The bulletin said the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous, but Luna stressed his department did not immediately release a name over concerns the disclosure would <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-mass-shooting-monterey-park-california-manhunt-gunman-lun-rcna66887#rcrd10089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;inhibit&#8221; authorities in making an arrest.</a>
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On Saturday January 21, 2023 at 10:22 PM the suspect male/adult/Asian pictured above was involved in a shooting. Investigators have identified him as a Homicide suspect and he should be considered armed and dangerous. Contact LASD Homicide with any information at 323-890-5000. <a href="https://t.co/2gPUBBybvv">pic.twitter.com/2gPUBBybvv</a>
&mdash; Robert Luna (@LACoSheriff) <a href="https://twitter.com/LACoSheriff/status/1617241146710962178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Authorities were not ready to announce a motive as of Sunday evening but an investigation is ongoing. &#8220;We want to know how something this awful can happen,&#8221; Luna said at the press conference.
The violence started around 10:22 p.m. Saturday night when a gunman opened fire at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-dead-10-wounded-in-california-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing at least 10 people</a> and wounded 10 others before the suspect fled the scene, according to authorities.
Paramedics declared five men and five women dead at the scene, Luna said during a news conference earlier in the day Sunday. The injured victims were taken to nearby hospitals, where their conditions ranged from stable to critical, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported. Luna said seven remained hospitalized as of Sunday evening. The sheriff did not identify any of the victims, but described them as being in their 50s, 60s, or even older.
Officials said a second incident took place within a half hour of the Monterey Park shooting at another dance hall in nearby Alhambra. Two people managed to wrestle a firearm from an <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">armed male Asian suspect</a> before the suspect took off, according to Luna, who noted <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/los-angeles-mass-shooting-01-22-2023/h_d7fd403b1a7674c9c2f06892df15a0fe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">witnesses saw</a> the suspect flee in a white cargo van, leading to the bulletin. &#8220;They saved lives,&#8221; Luna said of the two individuals who disarmed the suspect.
In the latest press conference, Luna described the weapon that was recovered from the Alhambra scene as an semi-automatic &#8220;assault pistol&#8221; with an extended magazine. In response to a reporter&#8217;s question, Luna said he believes the weapon was not legal to have in the state of California but stressed that he needed to investigate further. The sheriff said another handgun was found in the van and &#8220;several pieces of evidence&#8221; linking the suspect to both incidents.
Earlier in the day, dramatic images showed armored vehicles trapping the white cargo van during a traffic stop. Aerial video from KABC from the scene later showed what appeared to be SWAT team members smashing windows to gain entry into the van.
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NEW &#8211; SWAT officers smash out front window and enter the Torrance van believed to be tied to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MontereyPark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MontereyPark</a> shooting &#8211; images on delay, officers in information gathering posture per <a href="https://twitter.com/joshscampbell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joshscampbell</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@juliettekayyem</a> <a href="https://t.co/6pTFtE3Tfr">pic.twitter.com/6pTFtE3Tfr</a>
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Special Enforcement Bureau announced the standoff had ended after a couple of hours. “SEB SWAT operation for an armed suspect in Torrance has concluded. Neighborhood safe,&#8221; the bureau said in a tweet.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LASD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LASD</a> SEB SWAT operation for an armed suspect in Torrance has concluded. Neighborhood safe. <a href="https://t.co/QSNjMATzgR">pic.twitter.com/QSNjMATzgR</a>
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Officials could not immediately determine if Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by billions of people from a <a href="https://time.com/6248736/lunar-new-year-celebrations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">myriad of Asian cultures</a> around the world, was connected to the shooting. Monterey Park has a population of about 60,000, and <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/montereyparkcitycalifornia/PST045221" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about 65% of its residents</a> are Asian.
“Monterey Park should have had a night of joyful celebration of the Lunar New Year,” <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1617178780895956994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA)</a> on Sunday morning. “Instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence. Our hearts mourn as we learn more about the devastating acts of last night.”
President Joe Biden said he directed his homeland security adviser <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/22/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-shooting-in-monterey-park-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to prepare federal support</a> for the investigation and he ordered flags to fly at half-staff at the White House and all public buildings in honor of the victims at Monterey Park.

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Authorities Say Suspected California Mass Shooter Killed Himself

Ten people are dead, and at least ten more are hospitalized after a mass shooting during a Lunar New Year Celebration in a Los Angeles suburb late Saturday night.  
The shooting occurred in a dance studio in Monterey Park, a predominately Asian community about ten miles east of L.A. <a href="https://twitter.com/Elex_Michaelson/status/1617166376732618752">According</a> to a local reporter, &#8220;police believe they know who the suspect is&#8221; but he has not been named or located, and no motive has been announced. At a press conference Sunday morning, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the suspect has been preliminarily described as &#8220;a male Asian&#8221; between 30 and 50 years old. Luna <a href="https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1617204584459669507">said</a> the deceased included five males and five females.
The Sheriff&#8217;s Department released photographs of the suspected gunman who is still at large late Sunday morning. Law enforcement said the man is also a suspect in a second incident in Alhambra that occurred after the Monterey Park killings and &#8220;should be considered armed and dangerous.&#8221; Authorities said they are withholding the suspect&#8217;s name, citing concerns that releasing it could negatively impact their efforts to take him into custody.
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Breaking news: <a href="https://twitter.com/LASDHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LASDHQ</a> just released photos and info of the suspect in the mass shooting in Monterey Park <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KCALNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KCALNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSLA</a> <a href="https://t.co/WYnI86Zhvh">pic.twitter.com/WYnI86Zhvh</a>
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Law enforcement was dispatched at 10:22 p.m. Saturday after the shooter fled. 
“When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons &#8230; pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Captain Andrew Meyer <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/montereypark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#montereypark</a> Shooting at Lunar New Year celebrations in this City. Preliminary indications are 16 people shot, as many as 10 dead. No suspect in custody. Monterey Park PD is primary in investigation with the assistance of LASD Homicide. <a href="https://twitter.com/knxnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@knxnews</a> <a href="https://t.co/Q7aUhLwlOp">pic.twitter.com/Q7aUhLwlOp</a>
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Meyer <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/los-angeles-mass-shooting-01-22-2023/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that ten of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene by firefighters, and ten more were taken to hospitals and are in stable to critical conditions. One man who lives near the dance studio told the Los Angeles Times that his friend was in the bathroom during the shooting, and when she came out, she saw three bodies and a gunman. His friend said the killer appeared to be firing at random with a long gun, according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>. 
Police <a href="https://twitter.com/Elex_Michaelson/status/1617166376732618752">reportedly</a> believe another shooting at a dance hall in neighboring Alhambra Saturday night is connected. Sheriff Luna said the incident &#8220;may be related&#8221; during a press conference early Sunday morning. Luna confirmed that a weapon was recovered at the scene of the Alhambra shooting but would not specify what type, only clarifying that &#8220;it was not an assault rifle.&#8221;
Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renee Perez <a href="https://twitter.com/Elex_Michaelson/status/1617209161623965696">reportedly</a> said, &#8220;We know that individuals at the Alhambra dance hall saw the shooter and attempted to apprehend him, taking the firearm.&#8221;
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Sheriff Luna says incident in Alhambra “may be related but we’re not there yet” &#8211; Asian male walked into another dance hall with a firearm, was disarmed by people there and fled. 
A white cargo van there is described as a “van of interest.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MontereyPark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MontereyPark</a>
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&#8220;Monterey Park should have had a night of joyful celebration of the Lunar New Year,&#8221; tweeted California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday morning. &#8220;Instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence. Our hearts mourn as we learn more about the devastating acts of last night.&#8221;
Thousands of people were celebrating the Lunar New Year in the city. Monterey Park says past events have drawn daily crowds of more than 100,000 people. The celebration was expected to continue into Sunday, but organizers have canceled those plans. 
“Monterey Park’s Lunar New Year festival features vendors offering unique gifts and specialty items, food booths with various types of delectable items, amusement rides, and lots of live entertainment,” the Monterey Park website says of the event. 
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the situation by a Homeland Security Advisor, <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1617156575755489282">according</a> to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
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Jill and I are praying for those killed and injured in last night’s deadly mass shooting in Monterey Park.
I’m monitoring this situation closely as it develops, and urge the community to follow guidance from local officials and law enforcement in the hours ahead.
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The FBI&#8217;s Los Angeles field office is involved in the investigation, along with the homicide bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Monterey Park Police, and other agencies, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/los-angeles-mass-shooting-01-22-2023/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re working with the California Governor&#8217;s Office of Emergency Services, The Federal Bureau of Investigation LA office and numerous other law enforcement agencies,&#8221; Meyer said Sunday. 
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FBI on the scene here in Monterey Park, CA, after last night’s mass shooting at a ballroom. 10 confirmed dead <a href="https://t.co/kO4muEVV3H">pic.twitter.com/kO4muEVV3H</a>
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Monterey Park has a population of about 60,000, and about 65% of its residents are Asian. Meyer told reporters it was too early to know if the shooting was targeted. 
&#8220;We will look at every angle as far as whether it&#8217;s a hate crime or not. It&#8217;s just too early in the investigation to know,” he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/los-angeles-mass-shooting-01-22-2023/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
&#8220;Everything is on the table,&#8221; Sheriff Luna said Sunday morning. &#8220;Our detectives are looking at every possibility.&#8221;
LAPD Chief Michel Moore <a href="https://twitter.com/LAPDChiefMoore/status/1617210766561800193">said</a> the department has added patrols in Asian communities and is collaborating with organizers hosting similar celebrations.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police">Police</a> are now saying they believe a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartels">drug cartel</a> was behind the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting">shooting</a> that killed six people in Central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a>, including a 6-month-old baby and her 17-year-old mother.
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://abc30.com/goshen-shooting-six-people-killed-tulare-county-home-mother-baby-shot-drug-activity/12708739/">told</a> KFSN that the shooting occurred in Goshen just after 3:30 a.m. and that people who called 9-1-1 thought there was an active shooter in the neighborhood due to the number of shots they heard. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-16/six-people-including-mother-and-baby-killed-in-tulare-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Los Angeles Times</a> that the crime is likely a targeted attack.
“I think it’s specifically connected to the cartel,” Boudreaux told the outlet. “The level of violence … this was not your run-of-the-mill low-end gang member.”
“If [they] are specifically shooting everyone in the head, they know what they are doing &#8230; [and] they are comfortable with what they are doing,” the sheriff added.
The names and ages of all the victims have not been released, but authorities told the Times that some appeared to be family members.
Boudreaux also told the outlet that a sheriff’s deputy found the youngest victim, the 6-month-old baby, was found cradled in her 17-year-old mother’s arms in a ditch outside of the home where the massacre occurred. Both had been shot in the head.
A third female victim, an elderly woman, appeared to have been “shot in her sleep,” Boudreaux said. Three men were also killed, one of whom was alive when deputies arrived but died later at the hospital. At least one of the men will need to be identified using DNA testing because his face was so damaged by the weapon or weapons used in the attack.
Two women survived the shooting by hiding in a trailer home, the Times reported. They told police that people on the property saw the shooters approaching via surveillance cameras.
“They could see two men sneaking onto the property … but by the time they came on [the video feed], it was too late to do anything,” Boudreaux said.
County Supervisor Eddie Valero said the deaths were “everyone’s worst nightmare.”
“These senseless acts of violence, especially with infants, children and young adults, have no place in our communities,” Valero said in a statement to the Times.
Police also said they believe there were two shooters and that the incident was related to gang activity. Authorities continue to search for clues as to what motivated the shooting, the Visalia Times Delta <a href="https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2023/01/16/multiple-dead-in-goshen-gang-shooting-including-infant/69811812007/">reported</a>. A search warrant had been served on the house just one week prior, with police looking for narcotics. Boudreaux told the Times that a man was arrested during the search and that guns, marijuana, and methamphetamine had been seized.
Tulare County is a hotbed of drug trafficking, with cartels moving drugs from Mexico to Tulare and on to the rest of the United States. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, former leader of the Zetas cartel, was born in Tulare, while others involved in Mexico’s drug wars have been tied to the county as well, the Times reported.

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Drug Cartel Behind Central California Massacre Of Six, Including Mom And Baby: Sheriff

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Six people, including a 6-month-old baby and 17-year-old mother, were killed following a shooting in central California early Monday morning.
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://abc30.com/goshen-shooting-six-people-killed-tulare-county-home-mother-baby-shot-drug-activity/12708739/">told</a> KFSN that the shooting occurred in Goshen just after 3:30 a.m. and that people who called 9-1-1 thought there was an active shooter in the neighborhood due to the number of shots they heard.
When police arrived at the residence, they immediately noticed two victims in the doorway of a home, with a third nearby. Police found six total victims, with one person still alive. That person died after being taken to the hospital, Fox 26 <a href="https://kmph.com/news/local/shots-fired-deputies-investigating-in-tulare-county-sheriffs-goshen-ca-california-morning-heard-information-anonymous">reported</a>. The two victims who were minors both had been shot in the head, police told the outlet.
Police also said they believe there were two shooters and that the incident was related to gang activity. Authorities continue to search for clues as to what motivated the shooting, the Visalia Times Delta <a href="https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2023/01/16/multiple-dead-in-goshen-gang-shooting-including-infant/69811812007/">reported</a>. A search warrant had been served on the house just one week prior, with police looking for narcotics.
It does not appear as though anyone has been taken into custody for the shootings.
Deputies have closed off the area surrounding the house as they continue to investigate, with several search warrants served. Police are also asking neighbors for video surveillance that may show the killers.
The investigation remains active, sheriff&#8217;s spokeswoman Liz Jones told the Delta.

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Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uvalde">Uvalde</a> school district police chief, explained his crucial, tragic decisions in an interview after the shooting in May of last year.
Arredondo carried out an interview with authorities on the day following the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of nineteen students and two teachers. The interview was acquired by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/uvalde-school-massacre-arredondo-interview/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN.</a>
He said the main decision point happened when he saw other classrooms with children inside of them. 
“Once I realized that was going on, my first thought is that we need to vacate. We have him contained – and I know this is horrible and I know it’s [what] our training tells us to do but – we have him contained, there’s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don’t need any more from out here,” Arredondo said. 
“The ammunition was penetrating the walls at that point,” Arredondo <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Texas Tribune in June of last year. “We’ve got him cornered, we’re unable to get to him. You realize you need to evacuate those classrooms while we figured out a way to get in.”
Arredondo reportedly maintained that decision for more than an hour, even once he thought he heard the shooter loading his weapon again and after it was known that children were stuck inside the room with the gunman. 
While he told the Tribune that he “didn’t issue any orders” and “called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door,” the new interview showed that wasn’t true. 
He said that he told officers to form a “pyramid” on one side of the hallway to keep away from crossfire if the shooter emerged. He also decided to get people out of the building instead of going after the shooter.
&#8220;We’re going to clear out this building before we do any breach,” Arredondo told law enforcement in the hallway, as was reportedly heard on body camera footage. “As soon as they clear this room, I’m going to verify what’s been vacated, guys, before we do any kind of breaching.”
“Time’s on our side right now. I know we probably have kids in there, but we’ve got to save the lives of the other ones,” he continued. 
In the interview, Arredondo said, “We’re going to get scrutinized, I’m expecting that. We’re getting scrutinized for why we didn’t go in there.” 
“I know what the firepower [the shooter] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in the room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that weren’t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority,” he explained. “Because I know there’s probably victims in there and with the shots I heard, I know there’s probably somebody who’s going to be deceased. I know these weren’t,” he said of those who were in the other classrooms.
He also said he thought the door in the hallway was locked but didn’t try to get it open. However, he previously said he tried to open the doors with another officer. 
Children inside with the shooter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/uvalde-911-classroom-call-delay/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> to get help from the police while Uvalde police officers were standing by in the hallway. United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit personnel eventually <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/uvalde-police-chief-reveals-reason-slow-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> the gunman. In August, Arredondo was <a href="https://people.com/crime/uvalde-school-police-chief-said-he-contained-shooter-classroom-protect-kids-outside/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a>.

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Nearly a dozen people were shot at a restaurant in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/miami" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miami</a> Thursday night where rapper French Montana was shooting a music video at the time.
7 News Miami <a href="https://wsvn.com/entertainment/sources-say-10-shot-outside-the-licking-in-miami-gardens-witnesses-say-rapper-french-montana-was-filming-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Miami Gardens Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene at The Licking soul food restaurant around 8 p.m. where there were reportedly a total of 10 victims.
“We’re still working [the scene]. Yeah, there’s multiple shots, there’s multiple cases,” said MGPD detective Diana Gorgue. “We’re still working. We can’t confirm any numbers at this moment, because everything is still fresh, and they’re still investigating.”
Videos posted on social media showed a few victims lying motionless on the ground, covered in blood.
“We had a total of 10 [victims],&#8221; a first responder said in radio transmissions, the news station said. &#8220;Four brought themselves to the hospital, and we’ve treated six transported.&#8221;
Witness Ced Mogul told the news station that &#8220;at least 13, 14, 15 gunshots&#8221; were rattled off in &#8220;very rapid&#8221; succession.
“I took off running, and I was looking back, but I was like, ‘You know what? Let me just duck first, and then people started asking me, you know, ‘Can you help me?&#8217;” said Mogul. “When I realized people were asking for help, there was nothing you could do about it when you got shot.”
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The city of Buffalo, New York, filed a lawsuit against several gun manufacturers on Tuesday following a mass shooting earlier this year that left 10 people dead.
Mayor Byron Brown, a Democrat-turned-independent, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-buffalo-files-kind-lawsuit-gun-industry/story?id=95615548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the suit was filed in the state Supreme Court and the defendants include Smith &amp; Wesson, Bushmaster, Colts, Glock, Beretta, and Remington. The lawsuit was filed in the state Supreme Court.
A<a href="https://www.buffalony.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1185"> news release</a> pointed to the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store in May. Last month, the male suspect <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/nyregion/buffalo-shooting-guilty-plea.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> guilty to charges brought against him, which <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/buffalo-tops-grocery-shooting-payton-gendron-plea/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> first-degree murder, attempted murder, a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, and weapons possession.
&#8220;Members of our community have suffered too much for too long from gun violence,&#8221; Brown said at a press conference on Tuesday. &#8220;We must do everything we can to decrease gun violence. Enabling the possession of illegal guns destroys lives and deeply affects our neighborhood, especially in black and brown communities.”
The mayor described the lawsuit as “another proactive strategy that we are utilizing in Buffalo to keep our community safe.” 
“We have state public nuisance laws that we are empowered to enforce, and I intend on doing all that I can as Mayor to protect people and prevent the loss of lives resulting from gun violence,” Brown said. “The conduct of certain gun manufacturers has unreasonably interfered with the public’s right to use open space free from fear.”
The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23487757-buffalo-v-gun-manufacturers?responsive=1&amp;title=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> alleges that the defendants’ “actions have created, maintained, or contributed to a condition in the City of Buffalo that endangers the safety and health of the public.” It also added that the gun industry “manufactured or distributed thousands of firearms recovered in crimes committed in the City of Buffalo and New York State.” 
It seeks damages and for the defendants “to endow an abatement fund with sufficient capital to eliminate the public nuisance they are responsible for creating, exacerbating, and/or perpetuating.”
One of the defendants, Bushmaster, responded in a statement to CNN.
“We have not had a chance to review the allegations in full at this time, but upon first blush, the verified allegations against Bushmaster Firearms Industries, Inc. are false,” Bushmaster said. “Our counsel is currently reviewing the complaint and evaluating a path forward to address both this lawsuit and the potentially libelous claims made against Bushmaster Firearms Industries, Inc.”

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An elderly resident of a luxury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serial-killer-confesses-murdering-eight-men-james-barrett/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toronto</a>-area condo building went door-to-door, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunning down members of the complex’s board</a> Sunday night before police moved in and took him down, authorities said.
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The unidentified 73-year-old man shot and killed five people believed to be board members of the Bellaria Towers in suburban Vaughan during a rampage that began around 7:30 p.m. When police arrived, the man confronted them and was shot dead.
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“There is no further threat to the community at this point,” York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween said late Sunday. “We offer our sincere condolences to the victims and their families.”
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One other person was shot by the gunman, but survived and is expected to recover, authorities said. MacSween did not identify a motive or confirm if the gunman was a building resident. The victims were not identified pending notification of their loved ones.
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The crime scene was the “most terrible call I’ve seen in my entire career,” <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/18/world/condo-shooting-vaughan-canada/index.html">Constable Laura Nicolle told CNN</a>. She said all of the dead were killed in separate apartments. Ontario&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit was assisting local authorities in the investigation.
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Vaughan is located 20 miles north of Toronto.
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One resident described the neighborhood as quiet and safe. 
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“We wouldn’t imagine seeing that in our buildings, right, but nowadays you see everything,” the man <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/12/18/vaughan-condo-shooting-suspect/">told CityNews</a>.
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Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca tweeted about the incident early Monday.
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“On behalf of the City of Vaughan and council, I offer my condolences to the families of the victims killed in the shootings that occurred in the area of Jane Street and Rutherford Road,” Del Luca wrote. “I want to recognize the brave first responders who are working to safeguard the situation.”
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It was not disclosed what kind of gun the killer used, but the sale of handguns was banned by the Canadian government earlier this year. Mass shootings are rare in Canada, although in 2020, a 51-year-old denture salesman disguised as a police officer gunned down 22 people in Nova Scotia before being shot dead by police. In September, 11 people were killed and another 18 were stabbed in an indigenous community in Saskatchewan.
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The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding 48 others during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, was arrested on Friday on charges of felony reckless conduct.
The suspected gunman&#8217;s father is charged with seven counts of felony reckless conduct, according to Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart. The Daily Wire is not publishing the names of the suspect or his father in keeping with a policy of depriving alleged mass shooters of undeserved notoriety.
“Parents and guardians are in the best position to decide whether their teenager should have a weapon. They are the first line of defense. In this case, that system failed when (the suspect&#8217;s father) sponsored his son,&#8221; Rinehart said in a <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/ILLAKE-33de2a4?wgt_ref=ILLAKE_WIDGET_3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;He knew what he knew, and he signed the form anyway.  This was criminally reckless and a contributing cause to the bodily harm suffered by the victims on July 4th.” 
The suspect&#8217;s father turned himself in to law enforcement, the statement also revealed. He was scheduled for a bond hearing on Saturday, where a judge set bond at $50,000, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/us/highland-park-shooting-suspect-father-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> CNN.
Bond conditions require the suspected gunman&#8217;s father to surrender his weapons and to refrain from drug and alcohol usage, it added. His next hearing is scheduled for January 12, 2023.
The prosecutors argue that the suspected killer&#8217;s father helped his son obtain a Firearm Owner&#8217;s Identification (FOID) Card, which was only possible for a person under 21 years old with a parent&#8217;s participation in the application process. The charges claim that the father&#8217;s assistance in obtaining the FOID card was a contributing cause to those killed by the shooter during the parade.
Reckless conduct is considered a Class 4 Felony, the statement noted, which could lead to a sentence of up to three years in prison.
The alleged gunman, who was 21 years old at the time of the mass shooting, faces 117 charges in the killing of seven people and wounding dozens of others. His court date is scheduled for January 31, 2023. He confessed to firing more than 80 rounds during the parade, though he later pleaded not guilty.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/highland-park-shooting-suspect-who-confessed-to-firing-more-than-80-rounds-pleads-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that defense attorney Scott Greenfield explained why someone who confessed in this matter would still plead not guilty.
“The defendant is always told to plead ‘not guilty’ at arraignment in order to allow his lawyer to engage in discovery, motion practice and plea negotiations,” Greenfield said. “It’s entirely normal and reflects nothing about ‘innocence’ per se, but allows the lawyer room to do his job of zealously representing the defendant, no matter how overwhelming the evidence of guilty.”
Despite the suspected gunman having no criminal record before the shootings, he was the focus of two calls from family members in 2019. The first call came in response to a suicide attempt.
The second call came from a family member who said the suspect threatened to “kill everybody.” Police removed 16 knives, one dagger, and one sword from the suspect’s home, the Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/6/23196101/highland-park-mass-shooting-suspect-robert-crimo-iii-ordered-held-without-bond">reported</a>.
Despite the reports, the young man obtained a FOID card with the help of his father at the age of 19, which allowed him to legally own a firearm in Illinois.

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