representatives from the los angeles county department federal theory of investigation, the district attorney standing here with us, the red cross, the department of the health, victim services are at the centre to assist the victims, survivors and their families. assist the victims, survivors and theirfamilies. ifanyone assist the victims, survivors and theirfamilies. if anyone believes theirfamilies. if anyone believes their relative may be a victim please contact representatives at this victims resource centre that i m talking to you about. again, if you think you have questions, you are upset, you haven t been able to locate a family member that you think is involved, please go out to this victim centre and we will assist you. that is why would there put up at the centre we also have members from the psychological services bureau from the los angeles county sheriffs department. as we go hour by hour, if we see any other needs there are multiple agencies that are contacted
by president volodymr zelensky. hello and welcome to bbc world news. police in the us say a gunman is on the run after a mass shooting in los angeles. at least ten people, five men and five women, have been killed ten others have been wounded, some critically. the attack happened at a dance venue in monterey park around seven miles east of los angeles city centre. the motive for the attack remains unclear. emma calder reports. celebrations turned to tragedy. a gunman opened fire at this lunar new year celebration. thousands had attended the event, which had drawn to a close when witnesses say a man turned a semi automatic weapon on the crowd. i had my head phones on at the time, but i did hear some sounds going off and i was like, are those fireworks? i was sad, i thought we were missing fireworks. and then i knew for a fact it was not fireworks when i heard the helicopters, up above, because we never get helicopters around here. preliminary police reports suggest the suspe
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
people can see on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, this image now put out. what else is your reporting telling you, josh? any minute now we are expecting to get an update from the county sheriff and other law enforcement authorities. it was supposed to take place about a half an hour ago and was pushed back. the big development that law enforcement is now expecting to address is that police have now released more information about the suspect who, is still believed to be on the loose. they are describing him as an asian male, five foot ten 150 pounds. dark complexion. they have released these surveillance photos of this individual as they asked for the public s help in identifying and apprehending him. they identified the closing he was wearing. a black leather jacket, a beanie, was wearing glasses. saying he should be treated as a homicide suspect. police are also now making clear they believe it was the same individual who was at this incident here in monterrey
talk about the victim want to talk about the victim survivor side of this, in response to our mass shooting this morning, a victim resource centre has been set “p victim resource centre has been set up at the langley senior citizens centre, located at 400 west emerson avenue. and i want to make sure that the appropriate victims, families, friends, take advantage of that resource, there are many people be mind me, some of them will speak, representatives from different agencies, and there are so many parts to this, the medical side of it, but, as which are looking for the suspect, we will not forget the victims and survivors and it is important, because i can, you can imagine the trauma they have experienced, and it is our responsibility to wrap our arms round them.