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Local law enforcement there, we know, is looking into a separate incident in alhambra and trying to find out whether this suspect is connected to that incidentals. incident. also took place in some kind of dance studio hall will. what are you hearing from sources on the ground? reporter: we re hearing about 20 minutes after the mass shooting that happened at initial dance hall that a suspect, witnesses say a suspect went into that dance hall that you just mentioned about 2 miles north of here and that, apparently, some individuals will wrestled a firearm there wrestled a firearm. that s what witnesses are saying. they also say that that suspect took off in a white van. so that is how some people are connecting the dots on those two situations. mass shooting happened at the dance hall here, about 20 the minutes later another incident, a man wrestled to the ground where they take the firearm away from him. that individual gets in a white van and takes off. ....
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 ....
Monterey park, not far from will. it s a very quaint community, about 60,000 folks, 65% asian, about 25% hispanic. so this is a really nice part of l.a., a lot of businesses so people had their guard down celebrating. one hinge i do want to mention is we ve now learned lu your reporting that through your reporting that if this is the guy that did the killing, he had several guns, right? because they apprehended the gun at the shooting, then you had the incident in alhambra after where they disarmed him. then if he s in that white van having killed himself, then that s a third gun that he had. but getting back to your question, i mean, it looks like he probably has killed himself in the van because of the posture of the police officers. they don t look like incredibly alarmed, like they re confronting somebody that really poses a risk to them. that said, bill, i will tell you having been a survivor of las vegas shooting, i spent the last ....
S.w.a.t. officers go into that vehicle, open it up, obviously, we re keeping a wider shot just because we don t know what s inside of that van right now. but again, as you mentioned, that s actually a really good point, brian. it does take a while for law enforcement to release the name of any deceased individuals pending notification of next of kin. so it s very possible that is the case here. again, i do want to report that what we don t know is if there is somebody dead or alive inside of that vehicle right now. all we do know is the sheriff said they to do believe there s somebody inside, and they don t know that person s condition. but you can see these images yourself. all those deputies walked up to that vehicle, scanned it, searched it and then very nonchalantly have gone back to the rears of their vehicle. they re not holding their guns up, it does not appear they re trying to take the anybody into custody right now, so that leaves us, essentially, one of two options, there s ....
The sheriff s department, working with other agencies, to make sure again, that our priority beyond taking care of the victims and survivors of this horrible incident that we get this man off the streets. so, ithink, all of you have received this, i wanted to address also that there is a tactical incident that is occurring in the city of torrance, that is being covered, people have asked, is that your suspect? we don t know. as i said earlier, today, we had a vehicle that was described as a white box van, i guess you would say, van of interest, and there is a van that looks just like what we, what was described to us in the city of torrance, it is a barricaded suspect situation, we are working with one of our partner agencies, ....