One of the victims wounded in the shooting rampage at a dancehall just outside Los Angeles during Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday has died from their “extensive injuries,” hospital officials said, raising the death toll from the massacre to 11.
“Despite our best efforts, we are saddened to share that one of the victims has succumbed to their extensive injuries,” the LAC + USC Medical Center said in a statement. “We want to express our deepest sympathies to their families and loved ones."
The 72-year-old shooter opened fire on the crowd in the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Saturday, then fled the scene, police have said.
The mayor of Monterey Park said the shooter may have been targeting his ex-wife.
“My understanding is that he may have come because his ex-wife was reveling, celebrating the Lunar New Year, and it sounded like there was a history of domestic violence, which is unfortunate,” Mayor Henry Lo told NBC News.
Police said that just minutes after the massacre, the gunman traveled to a second dance hall in the nearby city of Alhambra, where he was disarmed by Brandon Tsay, 26, before he could take any more lives.
“He didn’t seem like he was here for any money. He wasn’t here to rob us. When he was looking around the room, it seemed like he was looking for targets, people to harm," Tsay told ABC News.
Hours later, the shooter was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after he was pulled over in the coastal city of Torrance, about 30 miles from the violence.
Police were searching the suspect's home today in Hemet, a small city about 85 miles east of Los Angeles. The motive remains under investigation.
Two of the 10 victims, My Nhan, 65, and Lilan Li, 63, were identified today by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
