gunshot after an overnight manhunt. officials say this 72-year-old man murdered 11, injured nine more. opened fire during lunar new yore celebrations at an asian american dance hall saturday night. we are so surprised. here is safe. i m scared. reporter: this was apparently an old man attacking the middle-aged and older out dancing. but why? we still are not clear on the motive. the investigation continues. reporter: apparently the suspect taught dance here at one point, met his now ex-wife at this very dance hall. they divorced in 2006. she told cnn he could be quick to anger if he missed a dance step, for example. was it an issue of being disgruntled or an issue of domestic violence? we don t know, unfortunately. i was told in the past he was a frequent attendee of this dance hall. reporter: his last known address, a trailer home in a senior community further east in hemet was sevearched. hemet pd came by twice alleging fraud, theft and poison allegations invo
important. a 72-year-old suspect who was found dead at the scene about 12 hours later from what officials believe at this point was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. but there s more to the story. nbc news now on staining this new and exclusive surveillance video that actually shows the moment when an apparent hero helped disarm what is believed to be that suspected gunman, and then this person speaking at it with lester headlight. i had to believe that i was going to die. like, my life was ending here at that very moment. but something something amazing happened, and a miracle actually, he started to tray to prep his weapon so he could shoot everybody, but then it came it dawns on me this was the moment to disarm him. i could do something that could protect everybody and potentially save myself. we begin our coverage. jim, welcom we have an eye on when we ll get our update and we ll go to that when they come out. the horror, the carnage, the lost lives. we could talk abo
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
Schools have done drills like this since 2015 and 2016. 95 . A lot of discussion about whats that doing for Mental Health. After all, schools, despite whats happening, schools are still one of the safer places out there for children. Still this is awful, and it sound like the kids knew what to do once this started. Ali and stephanie, thank you so much. Were going to continue on with this. Its 2 00 p. M. In the east, 11 00 a. M. In california. One student is dead and multiple others are injured after a shooting at a Santa Clarita high school today. Were waiting on two News Conferences scheduled to happen at any moment. One from the l. A. County Sheriffs Office. The other from the hospital where the victims were taken. Here is what we know so far. The l. A. County sheriff says the suspect survived a selfinflicted Gunshot Wound after he fled to a nearby home. The sheriff also says that the suspect is a Young Asian Male who was a student at Saugus High School and is now in police custody.