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Three dead and nine wounded after mass shooting at a Halloween party in Long Beach, California
Daily Mail
Wed October 30, 2019
At least three people are dead and nine have been wounded after a mass shooting at a Halloween costume party in Long Beach.
Police and firefighters were called to a house in south Long Beach around 10.45pm local time Tuesday to reports of multiple shots fired.
Three adult men were found dead in the back yard of a house behind a nail salon, while five other victims were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Four more victims were transported to hospital later.
Officers said at least one suspect had opened fire at the house, and is still at large.
Investigators were unable to give a motive for the shooting, provide a description of the shooter or shooters, and could not say whether they fled on foot or in a vehicle.
Witnesses said people wearing costumes were seen limping out of the building following the attack.
Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin told the Long Beach Post that all of the victims appeared to be in their mid-20s.
He described the scene as being 'filled with chaos'.
Three bodies were visible on the ground while paramedics were treating people on a grassy area outside a nail salon before loading them into ambulances, ABC7 reports.
Neighbours told the Long Beach Press-Telegram that up to 30 shots were fired, and that a white vehicle had sped past the scene around the same time.
Lambert Alcendor, 21, told the newspaper that he was walking to a liquor store when a white vehicle swerved in front of the nail salon before '20 to 30 shots' rang out.
Although he didn't see gunfire coming from the vehicle, he said he was confident that's where the shots were fired from.
Another local, who gave his name only as 'Martin', said he heard a car accelerating ahead of him and swerving suddenly before the shots started.
'Then all I hear is pop, pop, pop, a bunch of pops - maybe like 20 shots. It was a lot,' he said.
The street where the shooting occurred is primarily a residential area, with a few stores dotted around a busy intersection.
Locals said gunshots are occasionally heard, but that mass shootings of this kind are rare.
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