Authorities in Orange, California, took a 44-year-old suspect into custody Wednesday night after four people were shot dead in an office building. Since-deleted live footage from the scene showed the suspect – who sustained a gunshot wound – being carried out of the building before he was eventually taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The Orange Police Department confirmed during a Thursday morning news conference that a 9-year-old boy was one of the four individuals killed in the Wednesday evening shooting.
Additionally, a woman was left critically injured. No further details were provided about the victims because not all of their families have been notified.
This undated photo provided by the Orange Police Department shows Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, a 44-year-old Fullerton, Calif., man who is the suspect in a shooting that occurred inside a counseling business in Orange, Calif., on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. A child was among four people killed Wednesday in the shooting at a Southern California office building that left a fifth victim wounded and the gunman critically injured, police said. (Orange Police Department via AP)
Orange Police Lt. Jennifer Amat, the department’s public information officer, detailed that officers overheard gunshots when they first arrived at the scene around 5:30 p.m. local time Wednesday.
Responding cops were unable to immediately engage the suspect, as the door to the building’s courtyard “had been locked from the inside” with “a bicycle-type cable lock.”
Amat noted authorities have already determined the attack was an isolated incident, and not a “random act of violence.”
“The preliminary motive is believed to be related to a business and personal relationship which existed between the suspect and all of the victims,” she said.
Though the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Los Angeles office responded to the incident, the Orange Police Department presently remains in charge of the related investigation.
City of Orange police officers stand in front of a building after a shooting in Orange, California, U.S. March 31, 2021
The office shooting in Orange came as the third major US mass shooting in March.
Last month, a 21-year-old suspect with a self-proclaimed “sexual addiction” was apprehended in connection with the shooting deaths of eight individuals at three different spas in Atlanta, Georgia. Six of those killed were Asian women.
Another mass shooting occurred in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, with a different 21-year-old suspect allegedly killing 10 people, including a police officer, at a King Soopers grocery store.
At the same, many Republicans have argued their fellow lawmakers should focus less on firearms, and more on other factors associated with mass shootings.
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