zients is in. all right. good monday morning to all of you. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. officials in southern california last night identifying the gunman who killed ten people and wounded another ten at a ballroom in monterey park, that s east of downtown l.a. he is 72-year-old huu can tran. authorities say he died by suicide hours later after police stopped him at a shopping center 45 minutes away in torrance. when officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van. our sheriffs s.w.a.t. team approached and cleared the van and determined the suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. l.a. sheriff robert luna says the shooter s motive is still under investigation. cnn s natasha chen is on the ground in monterey park with more. reporter: on sunday evening, on lunar new year, when this community was
the shooter. also this morning in washington, the fbi conducting a historic search of president biden s home in coordination with his attorneys and finding more classified documents now as the white house deals with the legal implications, the political fallout is also getting worse. a warning from russia this morning. if germany sends its leopard 2 tanks to the war zone, ukraine will pay. this comes as two major western allies are locked in a standoff. a tv weather man jumped on the subway by a group of teenagers after he tried to help an elderly man. now these teens are free. cnn this morning starts right now. we ll start here in. after the massive manhunt, the gunman is dead, the sheriff said he shot and killed himself in his own van when police tracked him down hours after the mass shooting. we re told that he also went to a second dance studio to kill even more people, but the people inside were able to wrestle his gun away. cnn has learned the gunman was a fre
he s still trying to prevent who he really is from being out there. murdaugh s defense team pushed back on the alleged motive. he s still trying no doomsday reckoning in that regard. reporter: there is more evidence that could put alec murdaugh at the scene of the crime at the time of the murders. there is cell phone video from paul murdaugh s cell phone which contains audio of him talking to his wife and son. that time stamp on that ought i don t/video is 8:44 p.m. prosecutors say the murders took place between 8:30 p.m. and 10:06 p.m. that timeline is very key. randi, thank you very much. back to the top story, the gunman that killed ten people at a ballroom dance studio just as the city s largest asian american community was
he s still trying to prevent who he really is from being outed. reporter: murdaugh s defense team pushed back on the alleged motive. mr. murdaugh handwritten out his financial statement for purposes of that hearing. there s no doomsday reckoning in that regard. reporter: randi kaye, cnn. that trial begins today. coming up on cnn this morning the search for answers after the shooting in monterey park. our don lemon is live for us. next, the days of sharing your netflix password are numbered. ect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerfuful cough relief you need. mind if f i root through your trash? robitussin. the only brand with real honeyand e elderberry.