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
light on this. how are they proceeding at this moment? i think everyone is focused on answering that all so important question, which is the why? information they can glean from search warrants served on his residence, anything contained there that might give them a little insight into his thought process leading up to this shooting. investigators will want to talk to family members and friends of this gentleman. i think he was very target-specific for a reason. i think, my own personal belief, that maybe he had some beef or angst with those locations. was he looking for his ex-wife? was this a domestic violence kind of situation? there s a lot of questions that need to be asked and answered and also how did he get this purporteded illegal gun to have in california in california? yeah. all good questions. i think anyone looking at this, too, cheryl will note that his