By Brian Day and
Frank C. Girardot
Staff Writers
BALDWIN PARK Police arrested a man after a shooting incident Monday night that left three people dead and two others wounded in the 14500 block of Rockenbach.
The man who was arrested was not identified. The conditions of the surviving victims was not known. At least one victim was taken to a local hospital, authorities said.
Los Angeles County Fire Department supervising dispatcher Andrea Hawkins told the Associated Press that someone called 911 shortly to report the five gunshot victims.
When authorities arrived at the house, they found three dead at the scene. Hawkins told the AP that a fourth person was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and the fifth had minor injuries.
A dispatcher at the Baldwin Park police department said all available units had been dispatched to the scene.
The shootings may have stemmed from a family dispute, officials said.
The son shot the mom, said a man who identified himself as the son-in-law of one shooting victim.
A call to the Baldwin Park Police Department at 7:28 p.m. indicated a man had shot his mother.
Other family members were apparently talking to police detectives following the shooting, authorities said.
Several police officers from the Irwindale police department were dispatched to the scene. Additional units from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs department were called in to handle crowd and media control at the crime scene.
Immediately after the shootings, a man, who appeared to be in his 20s, sat outside the home where the incident took place and cried out:
In my house. In my house. My neighbor, he pointed arriving firefighters in the direction of the victims. Hurry, hurry. They are in here. There might be time to save them.
Police with automatic rifles patroled the working class neighborhood in the moments after the shooting as multiple reports of shots fired flooded in from other homes in the neighborhood.
One of those who received gunshot wounds was reportedly a 9-year-old. No information about the victims condition was known late Monday.
Family members tried to force their way in to the crime scene as detectives held them back, more than one broke through crime scene tape.
In the aftermath, family members consoled one another with hugs. Several had questions that police were unable to immediately answer.
Wheres my dad? Asked one man.
Others wanted to know which hospital the surviving victims were taken.