A man armed with two handguns opened fire at Taiwanese church banquet in southern California Sunday before he was overpowered and hogtied by congregants during the afternoon attack that left one victim dead and four people critically injured.
Asked if any churchgoers were wounded in the process of immobilizing the gunman, Hallock said it was too early to confirm exactly how many people were involved or injured in effort to restrain him. “One or more of the congregants did act quite heroically and jumped in and tried to do what they could to subdue the suspect immediately,” Hallock said. “It’s safe to say that had people not intervened, it could have been much worse. There were 30 to 40 people inside the church.
Hallock said it wasn’t immediately clear if the unidentified suspect, who was not injured, had any connection to the congregation. “He’s believed to be an Asian male adult in his 60s. We don’t believe he lives in this area,” Hallock said. “At this time we do not know what the suspect’s motive may be or whether he had an intended target or whether this is even a hate-related incident.”
The shooting at the church campus about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles was reported at 1:26 p.m. Sunday, with first responders arriving at the scene within minutes to find the suspect already subdued, Hallock said. Authorities did not immediately identify the victims.a Facebook statement from Tom Cramer, a co-executive of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos, a church administrative body. “Please keep the leadership of the Taiwanese congregation and Geneva in your prayers as they care for the those traumatized by this shooting,” Cramer said.
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