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
shooting at a los angeles area dance hall. we re going to join it live. be sure to stick with us for that. and it comes just hours after a deadly conclusion to a police standoff there. a s.w.a.t. team broke in to a white van, believed to be linked to last night s mass shooting at a lunar new year celebration in monterey park. earlier during an attempted traffic stop of this van, in torrance about 30 miles away, police heard a possible gunshot. the los angeles times says the driver died of a self-inflicted gunshot. and police now have to determine if the person they found behind the wheel is this man, the suspected gunman who opened fire at a ballroom dance studio, killing ten people and wounding ten others. we are covering all the angles of this developing story with our correspondents and experts. let s begin this hour with don lemon in monterey park. don? good evening to you, pamela. and it is a day of devastation here in monterey park, california. yet another shooting
this hour as a police standoff unfolds in california. this is believed to be connected to the mass shooting in monterey, california, that killed ten and left ten injured. the suspect is an asian male. armed and dangerous. witnesses say people in a dance studio celebrating the lunar new year when shots rang out. natasha chen joins me from california. what more are we learning? reporter: jim, a law enforcement source tells josh campbell it is related to the investigation into this shooting that happened in monterey park a couple blocks away from where we are. behind is a fbi mobile unit. lots of law enforcement. we are waiting to hear about the possible connection here to that standoff that you are seeing. the standoff through aerials is in torrance, california, 30 miles southwest of us approximately to the coast and we have been seeing now these vehicles, armored s.w.a.t. vehicles to the front and the back of a white van and still for quite sometime. the reason it could be i
if we can pull up this live shot, you can see the white van which is connected to the suspect, believed to be connect to the suspect, being surrounded by law enforcement in torrance the, california. that is just south to have the los angeles area. has the torrance police department with what looks to be two the bearcats surrounding that white cargo van which, again, is believed to be involved with the suspect behind this mass shooting. monterey park, where the shooting happened, is about 30-45 minutes away from scene you re looking at right now. so at some point, the suspect ended up here in torrance, and as you can see from the posture of the officers and the scene right there, it does not appear to be very active. those s.w.a.t. officers have their backs turned to the vehicle. we don t know the status of anybody inside that van, but i think it s fair to say they re not per e steveing any active threat at that scene right now. gillian: sheriff robert luna said earlier mornin