On Sunday police were reported to be in a stand-off with the person they suspect was responsible for killing 10 people in a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, including five men and five women.
Aerial footage showed a white transit van cornered by two SWAT vehicles as a number of police cars were stationed nearby in Torrance, just south of Los Angeles. A 67-year-old eyewitness reportedly saw a drone fly near the van as police commanded the vehicle's occupant to roll down the window or open the door.
A bomb squad vehicle also arrived on the scene of the stand-off as police expand the safety perimeters of the scene.
A SWAT team was able to breach the white van and found a body inside, according to ABC News. The body was found in the driver's seat after a stand-off which lasted for two hours on Sunday. US media is speculating whether or not the gunman shot himself.
While police are unsure of the gunman's motives, they published a photo of their suspect. The suspect, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, is an Asian man between 30 and 50-years-old who was seen wearing a knit hat and glasses.
Police believe the gunman went to a second dance hall in the neighboring city of Alhambra just 20 minutes after the first shooting, but people there were able to forcibly take the weapon way from him and he fled the scene.
About 65% of the 60,000 people in Monterey Park are Asian American. The shooting on Saturday took place at a building on West Garvey Avenue, which is a main thoroughfare that had hosted a festival celebrating the eve of the Lunar New Year earlier in the day.
Events celebrating the Lunar New Year were cancelled in the wake of the shooting.