Despite COVID-19 restrictions, shootings continue in the US. 2021 could surpass violence of the past.
Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P].
The recent shooting in Orange County, California, which left four people dead, including a nine-year-old boy who died in a woman's arms, adds to the chilling numbers that these acts have taken in the US despite a COVID-19 pandemic.
Originally from the city of Fullerton, Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, 44, was responsible for the massacre that took place this Wednesday where he murdered four people in cold blood, which, according to the authorities, were not random.
The Fullerton Police Department said the horrific events that occurred in an Orange office complex were premeditated, as the attacker locked the gates of the complex with bicycle cable locks and was armed with a gun, pepper spray and handcuffs.
They also explained that the perpetrator of the massacre, who is in critical condition in the hospital after being injured after the police intervention, was connected to the victims through commercial and personal ties.
Orange Police Department Lt. Jennifer Amat said that after a call was received around 5:30 p.m. reporting shots fired at a business in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue, officers responded to the scene and found the doors locked. They opened fire, wounding the shooter.
After the shooting, police were able to cut the cable locks with special pliers to enter the complex. In the courtyard, they found a dead 9-year-old boy and a woman - who remains in a hospital in critical condition - who hugged the child, it is believed, to save him from the bullets.
In addition, the police also found three additional bodies in other spaces: that of a woman upstairs, a man inside an office and a woman in a different room, all shot to death.
It should be noted that the Orange Police Department is conducting an investigation into the horrific act in order to forward the reports to the District Attorney's office. The perpetrator of the massacre could receive capital punishment if requested in this case.
The incident has become the third mass shooting in the country in