Orange County Shooting: Child Among 4 Killed in Southern California

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A shooting at an office building at 202 W. Lincoln Avenue in Orange, southeast of Los Angeles on Wednesday killed four people, including a child, and injured a fifth person before the suspect was shot, police said.

Shots were being fired as officers arrived at the two-story office building at about 5:30 p.m., Lt. Jennifer Amat said.

“An officer-involved shooting occurred" and the suspect was taken to a hospital, Amat said. It's unclear who shot the suspect, who was in critical condition. The victims included a woman who was wounded and also in critical condition.

The shooting was on the second floor of the building, Amat said. Media reports said bodies could be seen on the building’s second-floor walkway and in a courtyard.

Amat had no details about the confrontation, what may have sparked the attack or why a child may have been at the building at 202 W. Lincoln Ave. Signs outside indicated a handful of businesses were located there, including an insurance office, a financial consulting firm, a legal services business and a phone repair store.

By 7 p.m., the situation had been stabilized and there wasn’t any threat to the public, police said.

In a tweet, Gov. Gavon Newsom called the killings “horrifying and heartbreaking.”

“Our hearts are with the families impacted by this terrible tragedy tonight,” he wrote.

Rep. Katie Porter, a California Democrat whose district includes the city of Orange, said on Twitter that she was “deeply saddened” by reports of the shooting. “I’m continuing to keep victims and their loved ones in my thoughts as we continue to learn more. My team and I will continue to monitor the situation closely.”

A Facebook livestream, posted by a resident who lives near the office building, showed officers carrying a motionless person out and providing aid to someone else, the Orange County Register reported.

The livestream also showed officers taking two handguns from someone who was lying on the ground and providing help to another person. Two other people were led away in handcuffs, the paper said.

The killings were the latest mass shooting in the United States in the last two weeks. Ten people were killed in a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket last week and eight people were fatally shot — including six Asian women — in three Atlanta-area spas the week before that.

Amat said the shooting was the worst in the city since December 1997, when a gunman armed with an assault rifle attacked a California Department of Transportation maintenance yard. Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, an equipment operator who had been fired six weeks earlier, killed four people and wounded others, including a police officer, before police killed him.

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When gun control laws get tossed onto the senate floor, coincidentally, we got one shooting incident each week.

samuelwong
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Wait so whites aren't being blamed for this one off the bat? Something is terribly wrong here.

mindfreak
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Anyone else creeped out by her semi-smiling?

joep
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4 of my homies got shot in long branch over the summer. No news coverage. Selective outrage

Charple
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620 shootings in Chicago this I bet the average person knows more about mass shootings every month and nothing about city and choose!!!

redrum
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Stop covering this crap and there will be fewer shootings. You're just giving these people ideas.

ClellBiggs
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What is seriously wrong with people? Poor child.

uriell
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Why is there a shooting every other week? God damn we need to invest in mental health

naydsoe
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"It's a very tragic incident"
As she's smiling 🤦🏽‍♂️

Drew_
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Husband killed his wife and child at a family therapist office and two other women.

rondi
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The places with the strictest gun control laws have the highest levels of gun violence

Could it be that criminals are emboldened to commit crime when they know for a fact their victims aren’t armed and can’t defend themselves🤔

gandhithegreat
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This is very very sad but we all know why they are now reporting on crime that has been going on in the US for a long time and it’s not because they suddenly give a sh*t...

transmeeshax
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we came off quarentine and now america is the purge

paradox
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my neck of the woods, damn had a feeling some people gonna try to get crazy.

danielventura
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It's almost like all these shootings in "gun-free zones" proves how shitty that policy is.

networknomad
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Whats the point of ruining other peoples life’s just because yours isn’t as good as them like just stop these shootings it’s not normal or cool it’s just not right and IT NEEDS TO STOP NOW

d.g
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Thats number 3. Here comes the gun control.

sergiv
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Okay but why is she smiling? This is way too normal

deo
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My heart goes out to these people. It's a shame they had no way to defend themselves.

pep
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Damn, she seems like she’s enjoying the show. Or that’s just her nervous smile. Either way fix that reaction, best practice in front of a mirror Ms Spokeswoman.

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