Tao He died and four others were seriously injured. in a shooting Sunday at a church in Southern California, U.S. authorities said.

The shot took place at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna WoodsThe Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter. Agents took a man into custody and recovered a firearm, he added.

“We have arrested a man and we recovered a weapon that may have been involved, ” he said.

No further details available.

Laguna Woods is a city of approximately 16,000 people located 50 miles (81 kilometers) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Many of the residents live in Laguna Woods Village, a sprawling community for people 55 and older built in the 1960s.

The violence shocked residents of the suburban community in southern Orange County. Police closed El Toro Road and emergency vehicles lined up in front of the church.

Cindy Frazier, 65, I run tasks when he heard the enormous wailing of police and fire sirens as they rushed towards the Geneva Presbyterian Church.

“I thought it was the fire coming back, but it was sequential,” the Laguna Woods resident said of the emergency response. “It breaks my heart. Why? Why our community? ” he told the newspaper. Los Angeles Times.

in the buffalo

Saturday, a heavily armed white youth entered a Buffalo supermarket (New York) and indiscriminate firing that killed ten people and injured three more, mostly black.

The attacker was wearing a military helmet with a camera broadcasting the action live on the Twitch platform.

The federal FBI agency reported that it was investigating the attack “as a hate crime and a case of violent racially motivated extremism.

After that hunt, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, made an appeal this Sunday to “work together” to deal with “hate.”

Source: AP and EFE