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An 18-year-old woman was killed and at least six other people were injured in a shooting at a birthday party in Officers were dispatched to a home in Antioch just before 1 a.m. (4 a.m. ET) Sunday for "numerous" 911 calls reporting multiple gunshots fired, the Antioch Police Department said in a news release. Officers were told that partygoers had gathered at the residence to celebrate the birthday of a 19-year-old man. "During the party, multiple shots were fired after some uninvited guests arrived," police said. The shooting "created a panic," sending attendees, including gunshot victims, fleeing in multiple directions, with some victims driving themselves to local hospitals, authorities said. Four women and two men ages 18 to 20 sustained non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Police said the shooter or shooters fled in a vehicle and remained at large. The Antioch police Investigations Bureau responded to the scene and took over the investigation, police said. They asked anyone with information to come forward.

A ll the names of the dead from one there had been another shooting. There was another gunman at large. Seven more people were dead. Gun violence takes a daily toll in California, but the brutality, scale and pace of the past week has felt different. In the course of just eight days, at least 25 people were killed in four separate mass shootings, defined as any shooting in which Read more The killings – which cut across a big city, a placid Los Angeles suburb, and two small farming towns – have left residents shaken, exhausted and afraid, and renewed calls for some kind of fundamental change. “This proliferation of violence just seems like it’s perpetual,” said Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, an An average of five California residents die from gun homicides each day, but mass-casualty shootings highlight how violence can upend any community in the state, from rural enclaves to quiet suburbs. “At some point, you get tired of ‘thoughts and prayers’. You get tired of writing statements,” said Fernando Rejón, executive director of Urban Peace Institute, a community safety organization founded in California. “And you keep asking yourself, what is going to be the tipping point? After A Saturday night shooting in Monterey Park, California, America’s first “suburban Chinatown”, targeted a ballroom dance studio popular with elderly Asian American patrons on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Police said they were still trying to understan...

At least seven people were killed and one person seriously injured after a gunman opened fire at two agricultural businesses in The shootings unfolded on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a coastal city of roughly 11,000, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said. The wounded victim was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, she said. The suspected shooter, identified by authorities as Chunli Zhao, 67, was arrested within hours, with video captured by NBC Bay Area showing him surrendering to authorities at a sheriff's substation. Zhao, a resident of Half Moon Bay, is believed to have been a worker at one of the locations targeted, Corpus said. "We know that he acted alone at this time," she said. A motive in the mass shooting remained unclear, Corpus said. People live at one or both of the farms, and Corpus said children had been present when the gunfire erupted. "It was in the afternoon when kids were out of school," she said. "For kids to witness this — it's unspeakable." Deputies were dispatched to the first location at 2:22 p.m. after a report of a shooting, Corpus said. They found four people dead at the business and one person with critical injuries, she said. "For the second time in recent days, California communities are mourning the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence," President Biden said he had directed his administration to ensure local authorities "and the broader Half Moon Bay community...

Eleven people were killed and nine more were injured at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday night. Here, a woman is seen praying for victims outside Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif., on Monday. Jae C. Hong/AP A mass shooting over the weekend at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a city east of Los Angeles, killed 11 people and left nine others injured. After an hours-long manhunt, the suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Torrance, about 30 miles southwest of Monterey Park, officials said. The suspect has been identified as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old Asian man. The An 11th victim later died at a hospital, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) said in a statement on Monday. The victim was not identified by officials. A 73-year-old woman injured in the shooting was released from LAC+USC Medical Center Monday afternoon local time, officials said. Two more victims are still receiving treatment. On Monday, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner identified four of the victims as 65-year-old My Nhan, 63-year-old Lilian Li, 57-year-old Xiujuan Yu and 68-year-old Valentino Alvero. The remaining three women and four men — all in their 50s, 60s and 70s — have not yet been identified. "Our teams continue to work around the clock to care for the remaining two victims receiving treatment at LAC+USC, and we remain hopeful for their recoveries," Jorge Orozco, chief executive officer at LAC+USC Medical ...