United States: New Shooting Kills Four, Including A Child

A man opened fire at an office building on Wednesday March 31 in Orange, a city south of Los Angeles, California. Four people, including a child, were killed. A fifth person was injured and hospitalized. The shooter was hit by police fire and taken to hospital. The motivations of the individual remain unknown at this stage of the investigations. The police did not communicate any details about the victims of the tragedy.

The shooting was reported around 5:30 p.m. local time on the top floor of a small office building. According to Los Angeles Times, the police officers who went to the scene were shot and retaliated.

This shooting comes after two recent killings that have brought mourning to the United States and reignited the debate on the proliferation of firearms in the country.

On March 22, a gunman killed ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., Less than a week after a man shot eight people at Asian massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia.


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