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
what s also interesting is he shows up at a hospital later, police believe, they re investigating that report, because the hospital had this encounter with a patient who seemed to have been in a fight, was seeking treatment particularly for an injured hand. and when the pictures came out from the sheriff s office, they said that this guy was here for a while, he didn t want to wait, and he left. in the meantime, you ve got atf that has that gun is able to run it through their records and come up with a name of a purchaser, which puts them on to a potential subject. they spin that into a registered vehicle license plate, they put that into the license plate readers, they see it s hitting in torrance, california. pretty far away from the first couple of incidents. the sheriff s department alerts torrance, torrance is able to get their tactical people out, start searching for that car, do that high-risk stop. and then as we know, they hear a