yet to be identified as police work to determine a motive after a gunman killed at least ten people at a dance hall saturday night in monterey park, california. the shooter a 72-year-old man a fixture at that dance hall. police say armed with a semiautomatic weapon and extended magazines and died sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. it could have been so much worse. shortly after the attack, he went to a second location where a man there disarmed him, and this morning he described their frightening confrontation. i needed to get the weapon away from him. needed to take this weapon, disarm him or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, smashing the back of my head. i i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance. finally at one
stammer and able to wrestle the gun out of this hand. he could have created this situation during the day, thousands of people, young people, children on-scene but specifically waited until later in the eenks. evening. you mentioned the weapon. extended large capacity magazine that he had on his handgun. banned in california right now. how could he had have acquired that? would he have acquired it before it was banned and what is the remedy here when you re looking at a shooter who has something like that, that is banned yet still able to access it? well, that s something we ll have to find out in the weeks and months to come once this investigation concludes. it s quite possible he purchased that weapon somewhere else. we see he gets around. right? lives in this area, went to alhambra and goes to torrance.
face, smashing the back of my head. i i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance. finally at one point i was able to pull the gun away from him, shove him aside, create distance. point the gun at him, intimidate him, shout at him and say, get the howell out of here! i ll shoot! get away. go! in the past three weeks dozens of attack like this played out across country. so far this year according to the gun violence archive at least 36 mass shootings in the u.s. chn chn cnn natasha chen is with us. what can you tell us about those identified? reporter: they are 65-year-old my nhan and 63-year-old littlen li and the first two names we re hearing our the ten who died here at
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20, 30 minutes later. according to interview they gave to abc, he said most customers had left their lunar new year not quite paying attention to the front door then heard the door close. saw this man with a gun and thought that he might die in that moment. he heard the sound of metal rubbing together, looked over and really had that moment of recognizing that he needed to do something and got up the courage to stop him to try and get some distance between the man and his weapon. ultimately taking over that weapon. a really incredible story, and when, you know, asking, called a hero. you ve been applauded for your courage. he said the real courage now has to be shired with these family and friends of the victims and the injured. that is going to be where the real courage lies in the coming days and weeks ahead, brianna. they re trying to make sense of this.