what you said, to validate that he killed himself. i think that s what people want to find out, two things, is the is driver of that white van dead or alive, right? number one. number two, if he is dead, then there s got to be a gun inside there, or right? who s that registered to? you ve got the gun from the shooting. he probably has some identification on him, driver s license. you can then take his dna and match that that dna, hopefully, with the dna on the gun that was seized at ballroom where the mass shooting happened. so these are some of things we want our sheriff many l.a. county to talk about in l.a. county to talk about so that that people mt. community can have some sense of community and a more calm feeling that this really is guy that did it. bill: yeah. and it s pretty obvious hay got a pretty quick indication of who this guy might be given that photo that they the put out. it looks like they got some images very quickly, able to put
officials that are here with us morning representing the city of monterey park. i am, as you know, very heart broken to hear of the news of what occurred with the individuals that lost their lives, but i think now the we have to look at the victims, survivors. and as the sheriff said, this is what the county does best, help provide assistance, mental health services, any kind of relief that is possibly and legally conceivable for us to provide, we are here to support all of families and community and help them in their healing. it s tragic, what happened, but let s also think about people who put their lives out there at stake every single day to protect our safety, well-being and our physicians. the ones i can tell you that are l.a.cusc that are treating at least four victims will. they have also devoted their service to help providing protections for all of our
originally in the asian community of monterey park, not only occupied by asian residents, but heavily, uh, very heavy population of asian residents there, so we ll continue to piece together of this horrible, horrible turn of events. but right now, eric baw gillian and bill in washington. gillian: fox news alert, we re awaiting an update out of the l.a. county sheriff s department. overnight there a gunman opened pyre inside a ballroom dance club as people were gathered to celebrate the chinese lunar new year. ten people died, at least ten others injured and transported to local hospitals. this was a mass shooting that that took place in monterey park, california, overnight. welcome to fox news live, i m gillian turner. bill: and i m bill melugin. the suspect still at large, he is described as an asian male.
shooting look place. there s lots of businesses, so you have to imagine that there was lots of security cameras, possibly lots of witnesses, thousands of people were out in this area yesterday to celebrate the new year s eve, the hue far new year. so lunar. so there were a lot of eyes on this area. so that is definitely going to help out investigators. i talked with one of witnesses around here, one of the witnesses to emergency responders taking those victims away, and he says a lot of people around here were very terrified this morning because the killer was still on the loose. so again, we re waiting for that press conference to happen. it ll be very helpful if he can release more details on this. again, we know heir in the very preliminary stages of this investigation, but i think a lot of people want to know is why would someone attack these innocent individuals? this is such a happy time, so many people out here celebrating the community here. you have a lot of older people who
continues to provide protective services throughout this incident. we work with our partners both on a county, a state and a federal level and try to resolve the situation as best we can and take the our suspect into custody. finish the sheriff talked about the langley center. that s where our victim assistance has been it up. i asked that the partners in the press give those victims families a little bit of space over will so that they can get information. you can imagine when hay woke up this morning after lunar if new year festivals from yesterday and they may not have found their loved one next to them in the bed or at home and how that s affecting everybody in community right now. i want to assure everybody that as we get more information, we ll put it out as much as we can, and the monterey park police department is here as your partner in the community to keep it safe. any information that that people may have related to the incident, he can call the police