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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 ....
Van that the district attorney just announced matches the description of a van that was seen by witnesses fleeing the scene from two separate incidents last night, one in monterey park, california, the other in alhambra. it appears that the that s.w.a.t. team is now making a move on the vehicle after standing nearby for the last better part of an hour. we re learning new details coming in to the newsroom each moment now but, bill, it does appear her making a move on this van. bill: yeah, they are. and and the they are the elite of the elite, the sheriff s enforcement bureau. you can see those heavy armored vehicles they have, those are all very highly trained essentially s.w.a.t. guys, and this is the first activity we ve seen at that surround ised van in at least well over an hour at this point. you can see they appear to be clearing that vehicle. they, the point guy s got his, you know, he had his gun pointed at first, but it does seem to be ....
I believe nerves are a lot calmer because the individual is now in custody, but understanding what the motive was will be bringing much relief to to that community. gillian: we don t know the motive yet, but we do know from the l.a. county sheriffs that of victims who died on scene last night, five were male, five were female, police also said hay believe that all of them are of asian-american descent. what, if anything, can you read into that? well, the suspect, i understand, was of asian-american descent. it kind of causes me to lean away from a bias crime, a hate crime. however, we never moaa goes on through a person s mind no matter who they are, where they re from. i believe from the beginning that this individual may have some connection to the targets, may have some bone ofen contention perhaps with the ownership of these establishments, or if it was domestic, it could be a place where him and someone else into ....
History. law enforcement is now looking into whether the suspect who we have reported, as christina coleman has reported, police there believe is connected to that white vehicle, looking at whether he is connected to another incident in alhambra about 18 minutes after. monterey park. right now this hour, this moment, the list is a lot long longer what we don t know. we don t know where the suspect is, whether he s on the scene or not, whether he s alive, dead or injured, and we don t know whether fire was exchanged on scene at parking lot that we re looking at. bill: and we re, hopefully, going to get some of those questions cleared up as we re waiting for the l.a. county sheriff s department to get started. if we can pull up the photo of the suspect in this mass shooting, this is something l.a. ....
Other suspects were involved many east of these incidents either of these incidents. they re also describing what you are looking at right now as a tactical incident that s taking place, again, in a parking lot in torrance the, california. bill: and i think we re going to find out fairly quickly from these live images the status of that suspect. if we see a tarp come out, for instance, if they start trying to cover it up and they don t bring anybody out, that means there s specialtyly potentially somebody dead inside. but the way it looks right now, it does the not appear to be an active threat coming from inside of that vehicle and, again, these are the elite guys they ve called in. this is not torrance the pd, this is the s.w.a.t team, essentially, for the l.a. county sheriff s department surrounding that vanishing going in now and, again, the reporting is from the sheriff himself that they believe that somebody is inside of that vehicle. gillian: let s bring back in brian claypo ....