He shot himself in his parked vehicle, a cargo van, on Sunday morning, about 12 hours after he went on a rampage as police surrounded him in the city of Torrance, south of Los Angeles, officials said.
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Saturday’s violence began amid Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Monterey Park, a center of the Asian-American community in Southern California, which initially sparked concerns that the attack could be racially motivated. The program for the second day was cancelled.
According to Hilda Solis, a member of the county Board of Supervisors, it ranked as the deadliest mass shooting ever in Los Angeles County.
By comparison, the 1984 massacre of 21 people at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Diego is the largest loss of life from a single shooting incident recorded in California.
Fourteen people were killed in 2015 in San Bernardino, east of LA County, by a married couple who authorities said were extremists inspired by foreign terrorist groups. They were killed in an encounter with the police hours later.