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Four dead including a child in shooting at office complex in LA suburb- Cops say shooter Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez who locked gates of office complex before killings, knew victims

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Orange gunman locked gates of office complex before killing 4 Four dead including a 9-year-old boy in shooting at office complex in LA suburb<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Officers weree filmed dragging bloodied suspect from two-story building<&sol;strong> <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Cops say gunman who locked gates of office complex before killing Police say he knew victims <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Shooter identified as mass shooting suspect Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Gonzalez was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound and was listed in critical condition Wednesday night<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Aminadab-Gaxiola-Gonzalez-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375023"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Orange County police post photo of alleged mass shooter&comma; Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez&comma; during a news conference on Thursday&period; <strong>Gonzalez<&sol;strong> is in custody<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The gunman who killed four people&comma; including a 9-year-old boy&comma; at an Orange office park locked the gates to the complex with bike cable locks and was armed with a weapon as well as pepper spray and handcuffs&comma; police said Thursday&period;<br>The complex is home to about a dozen businesses&comma; including an insurance office&comma; a marriage therapist&comma; a speech and language pathologist&comma; a phone repair shop and several property management companies&period;<br>The gunman first opened fire&comma; but she said the incident began inside one of the complex’s suites before moving to a courtyard area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Lt&period;-Jennifer-Amat-second-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375052"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Lt&period; Jennifer Amat&comma; &lbrack;at lectern&rsqb;&comma; spokeswoman for the OPD&comma; speaks at a news conference updating the media about the mass shooting in Orange that resulted in four deaths&comma; including a child<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Authorities said the shooting occurred inside a business&comma; Unified Homes&comma; and the gunman and the victims were connected through business and personal ties&period; Wednesday’s attack was not random&comma; they said&period;<br>Lt&period; Jennifer Amat&comma; a spokeswoman for the Orange Police Department&comma; said officers received a call about 5&colon;30 p&period;m&period; of shots fired and responded to a business at 202 W&period; Lincoln Ave&period; in Orange&period; The beige&comma; two-story office complex at the address contains a number of small businesses&period;<br>The officers encountered gunfire when they arrived and opened fire&comma; Lt&period; Amat said&period;<br>The shooter was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound and was listed in critical condition Wednesday night&period;<br>The other A woman who was also injured by gunfire&comma; was listed in critical condition Wednesday night&period; A firearm was recovered at the scene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;LA-police-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375051"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Police investigate a shooting that left four people dead at an office building in Orange County&comma; LA on March 31<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;LA-police-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375034"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Police investigate a shooting that left four people dead at an office building in the 200 block of W&period; Lincoln Avenue in Orange&comma; LA on Wednesday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Officers received a call at about 5&colon;30 p&period;m&period; of shots fired at the business in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue&period; The officers encountered gunfire when they arrived and opened fire&comma; Orange Police Lt&period; Jennifer Amat said&period;<br>Because the gates were locked&comma; police officers responding to the scene fired through them and wounded the gunman&comma; Amat said&period; Police had to use bolt cutters to get into the complex&period;<br>Officers found two victims in the courtyard&comma; one of whom was the 9-year-old boy&comma; and a woman who had also been shot and was taken to a hospital&comma; where she remains in critical condition&period; The 9-year-old is believed to be the son of one of the victims who worked at the business&period;<br>Calling it a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;horrific massacre&comma;” Orange County Dist&period; Atty&period; Todd Spitzer said Thursday it appeared that the boy died in the arms of a woman who &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;was trying to save him&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Locals-watch-authorities-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375049"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Local residents watch police activities at the scene on Wednesday at a business at 202 W&period; Lincoln Ave&period; in Orange<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Police at the scene found three additional bodies&comma; including that of one woman on an upstairs outdoor landing&comma; one man inside an office&comma; and one woman inside a separate office&period;<br>Police recovered a semiautomatic handgun and a backpack with pepper spray&comma; handcuffs and ammunition&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;which we believe belonged to the suspect&comma;” Amat said Thursday&period;<br>The victims’ names have not been released because their next of kin have not all been notified&comma; she said&period; The suspect is Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez&comma; a 44-year-old Fullerton man who police said had a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;business and personal relationship” with the victims&period;<br>Spitzer also noted that the crimes are subject to the death penalty&period; He has not made a decision about whether to seek death in this case&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is a horrible&comma; horrible tragedy that Mr&period; Gonzalez made a decision to use deadly force to deal with issues he was dealing with in his life&period; So he will suffer and face the consequences&comma;” Spitzer said&period;<br>Two police officers discharged their weapons at the scene&comma; said Kimberly Edds&comma; a spokeswoman for the Orange County district’s attorney’s office&comma; which investigates officer-involved shootings&period; Both were wearing body cameras&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;LA-police-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375048"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Video footage of Wednesday’s shooting showed a cluster of police and fire vehicles on the block<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Orange Police Department will forward their reports to the district attorney’s office at the end of the investigation into the suspect and victims&comma; Edds said&comma; which could lead charges being filed against the suspect as soon as Thursday&period;<br>The district attorney’s investigation into the shooting could take &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;several months&comma; up to a year&comma;” she said&period; No officers were injured at the scene&period;<br>The incident — the third mass shooting in the United States in two weeks — stunned the quiet north Orange neighborhood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Locals-watch-authorities-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375033"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Locals watch from beyond the crime scene tapes as authorities investigate the office building shooting on Wednesday<&sol;strong> <&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Orange violence came a week after a gunman opened fire at a Boulder&comma; Colo&period;&comma; supermarket and two weeks after a massacre at three Atlanta-area spas&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Horrifying and heartbreaking&period; Our hearts are with the families impacted by this terrible tragedy&comma;” California Gov&period; Gavin Newsom said of the Orange shooting Wednesday night&period;<br>Arianna Barrios&comma; a City Council member in Orange&comma; said the community was trying to get some sense of what had happened inside the office building on Wednesday&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new details issued by our police department this morning are horrifying and sickening&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am grateful to our Orange Police officers for the quick response and believe their actions in all likelihood prevented additional lives from being lost&period; Orange is a strong&comma; resilient community&period; The victims&comma; their families and all who have been touched by this monstrous act of violence can depend on us to stand with them in this terrible time&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;LA-police-investigate-Orange-County-shooting-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-375037"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Police investigate the shooting that left four people dead at an office building in the 200 block of W&period; Lincoln Avenue in Orange&comma; LA&comma; on Wednesday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A local resident said she heard a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bunch of popping&comma;” noting that she heard about 10 shots&period;<br>Rep&period; Katie Porter &lbrack;D-Irvine&rsqb;&comma; wrote on Twitter&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m deeply saddened by reports of a mass shooting in Orange County&comma; and I’m continuing to keep victims and their loved ones in my thoughts as we continue to learn more&period;” Porter’s district includes parts of Orange&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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