Washington/Hyderabad: US President Joe Biden orders US flags lowered for California shooting victims on Sunday. The shooting had happened on late Saturday in the predominantly Asian American community of Monterey Park cast a shadow over the New Years festivities and sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area.
Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations. Although the hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people at a ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations ended Sunday when authorities found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the van he used to flee after people thwarted his attempt at a second shooting.