Multiple People Hit in Shooting at Laguna Woods Church; Suspected Shooter in Custody

[C Moon]

Last edited Sun May 15, 2022, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NBC Los Angeles

The gun used in the shooting has been recovered, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Multiple people have been hit during a shooting at a church in the Laguna Woods area of Orange County, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

The shooting occurred at Geneva Presbyterian Church, located at 24301 El Toro Road.

A suspect is in police custody, the OCSD said. They have not yet been identified.



Read more: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/multiple-people-hit-in-shooting-at-laguna-woods-church-suspected-shooter-in-custody/2893860/

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It's just another day.

Update:

The latest is that it was a meeting of Asian churchgoers.

"One person was dead and five others were injured in a shooting during a meeting of Asian churchgoers in Southern California Sunday, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said."

"Police sources said the man detained is in his 60s and of Asian descent. They stressed that the investigation was in its very preliminary stages and they have not determined motive."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-victims-reported-person-detained-california-church-shooting-rcna28937

[Richard D]

1. Laguna Woods . . .

. . . is in large part populated by residents of Laguna Woods Village, a retirement area.

[ret5hd]

2. Ima gonna make a guess:

Captured shooter is white.

Been wrong before, but…

[C Moon]

3. I know what you mean. Laguna Woods is a well-to-do city in So Cal, so we'll see.

(whoops: I thought it was Laguna Niguel. It's Laguna Woods). I'm guessing it's about the same.

[Demovictory9]

10. laguna woods is VERY white doesn't mean shooter is white though

[C Moon]

24. Right you are: it turns out it was a meeting of Asian churchgoers.

One person was dead and five others were injured in a shooting during a meeting of Asian churchgoers in Southern California Sunday, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said.

[Demovictory9]

34. Asians probably 2nd largest group in that area

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Non-white shooters tend not to be captured alive. . . . nt

[ret5hd]

31. Exactly my point.

[lapfog_1]

6. looking at the church's facebook page

it would appear that most people that attend this church are both white and older (almost elderly).

[Richard D]

7. It's a retirement area.

So yes, older population.

[C Moon]

9. My first thought is that it was a relationship thing. Seems to happen a lot in OC.

[Demovictory9]

11. its a retirement community like the villages in Florida

[SouthBayDem]

16. There were many Asian Americans in this church though

The Orange County Register reported:

Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said many of the 30 or so people who were in the church when shots rang out were of Taiwanese descent.

Orange County has pockets of Asian communities (Westminster, Irvine, Tustin for instance).

[paleotn]

18. Presbyterians usually are.

White. Not necessarily elderly. Much of my maternal extended family are Presbyterians.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. And you're wrong this time,

police say the suspect is Asian.

A Taiwanese congregation was in the church at the time of the shooting, Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said. Authorities are interviewing more than 30 people who were inside the church at the time. The victims were described as mostly Asian and mostly of Taiwanese descent, authorities said.

A law enforcement source said officials believe the suspect was a 68-year-old Asian man who is originally from Las Vegas. No other details were available.

[Escurumbele]

30. Nope, here is what the police said:

"Police sources said the man detained is in his 60s and of Asian descent. They stressed that the investigation was in its very preliminary stages and they have not determined motive."

[Dr. Strange]

32. Jeff Tiedrich knew the shooter was white...

when he found out the shooter was taken alive.

[BradAllison]

52. Except he wasn't

He was taken alive by the congregation and was Asian.

[Dr. Strange]

53. Don't you dare argue with Jeff Tiedrich!

If he says someone is white, then they're white dammit!

[wnylib]

33. Captured shooter is Asian. No specific nationality given.

The church members are Taiwanese Presbyterians.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Full Flower Moon

(with a "Blood Moon" lunar eclipse tonight).

And all hell breaks loose.

[Aristus]

5. Goddamn! The gun-crazies are really coming down the mountain!

Trying so desperately to start their beloved, long-anticipated "race war".

I think they're going to get much more than they bargained for when they get thrown into GenPop. They won't have their guns when that happens, but that's the risk you have to run sometimes...

[C Moon]

14. I looked up the shooting on Twitter and saw a post by a rwn.

He was saying it’s the “deep state” setting up these shootings so they can push a gun control bill through the senate. Friggin’ nuts!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. They have been saying it since Sandy Hook and before. . . . nt

[Richard D]

8. 1 death, four injured (so far)

[Demovictory9]

15. Live camera of.church from air

[ancianita]

19. The most recent count is 5 hurt

[IronLionZion]

12. Every day now eh?

[Cha]

13. Same Gun Violence Shit different

💙💛

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Wait. Which shooting is this again?

[Richard D]

20. From the L.A. Times - A Taiwanese congregation and shooter.

A Taiwanese congregation was in the church at the time of the shooting, Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said. Authorities are interviewing more than 30 people who were inside the church at the time. The victims were described as mostly Asian and mostly of Taiwanese descent, authorities said.

A law enforcement source said officials believe the suspect was a 68-year-old Asian man who is originally from Las Vegas. No other details were available.

According to its website, the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church usually holds a 10 a.m. service at Geneva.

[ancianita]

21. Wait. Amazon sells a mystery novel of the same name.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MpajM3g+L._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

[LudwigPastorius]

25. ...from the churches, to the markets,...

to the neighborhoods...red with blood...

God bless America,...and its gun flood!



https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours

[VarryOn]

26. John 15:18

Ecclesiastes 1 (first chapter, verse nine...for some reason DU inserts an emoji when I type the numbers)

The first two verses that came to mind when I heard about this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. 1:9

1 gives you the yum emoji (1 colon 9). (But not in title lines which get special processing).

1:9 gives you 1 colon 9. I wrote 1 colon open-sq-bracket b close open slash b close 9. That puts a non printing something in between the colon and 9.

Is your browser Firefox? Mine does that. Also double quote parenthesis gives a smiley emoji &quot . So I usually just put a space: " ).

Likewise you could put a space: 1: 9.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. Or 1:9

1:9 gives you 1:9

[VarryOn]

46. Thank you, Bernardo...

I use Chrome. I’ve never encountered that issue.

I’m not a big emoji guy. My son and wife are. Half the time they text me, I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. It give me a good excuse at times when I’ve failed to follow a command via text!

[obamanut2012]

27. Guessing DV incident

Since the shooter was an older male Asian.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. DV equals Digital Video. What does that have to do with it?

Could you clarify your writing, please?

[onenote]

40. Domestic Violence

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. Thanks. I haven't heard anything in relation to that. . . . nt

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

28. There was a shooting today in Texas...

At a flea market...2 killed, 3 wounded...the Laguna shooting brings us to 200 mass shootings in the first 19 weeks of 2022 or roughly 10 a week...

[niyad]

35. According to wiki, there have been 237 mass shootings so far this year, 245

dead, 951 wounded. It is day 130 of the year. So, roughly 1.8 per day (note this is only the mass shootings).

WE'RE #1!!

[thesquanderer]

41. I thought it was unusual to have 3 of these in 2 days.

If there are 1 or 2 every day, why aren't we seeing these in the news?

If EVERY SINGLE DAY there was a front page story about "today's" mass shooting, I bet many people would start being afraid to go anywhere. Maybe reporting like that could actually prompt a much more of a public outcry of the need for stricter gun control laws. Maybe it would break down some of the resistance to gun control, and also make more people care about it who now may not give it much thought (because it "doesn't affect them&quot .

[niyad]

43. I doubt it. Sandy Hook, Parkland, Pulse, Las Vegas, etc., on and on ad infinitum, 5

NOTHING wakes these people up. NOTHING changes.

[thesquanderer]

45. 1-2 mass shootings a day might be seen very differently from 1-2 mass shootings a year.

And I suspect that the average joe thinks this happens like maybe once a year. If it were seen as a daily occurrence, I think these people might really start to change their positions from "well, there's always going to be the occasional nutcase, we have to live with it" to "ohmigod, it's everywhere... which means it might actually happen to ME."

[niyad]

48. You give them far more credit for intelligence and connection than I do.

[AngryOldDem]

39. I tell you....

Between this, Roe, the fascists who are taking over, and the general idiocy I see on a daily basis, I’m about ready to just move into a goddamn cave and be done with this fucked up society. Nothing is ever going to change.

Almost all of the people shot this weekend were 60+. One is in his 90s. Live almost all your life peacefully only to be met with this. Can’t go to the damn grocery or to church without fearing for your life.

I’m done asking what’s wrong with this country, because we all know what it is.

(Oh…no mention of the shoot up at the Houston flea market? Did that get lost in the shuffle?)

[niyad]

44. Little about Winston-Salem either.

[dalton99a]

47. "The visiting pastor struck the suspect with a chair, knocking him to the ground."

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/15/multiple-people-wounded-in-shooting-at-laguna-woods-church/
Churchgoers hogtie gunman after 1 killed, 5 wounded at Laguna Woods church

[milestogo]

51. "Churchgoers hogtie gunman"

File under "skills you might need at church".

[Upthevibe]

49. C Moon.....

I live in Redondo Beach which is about an hour and 15 minutes from Laguna Woods.

It is an upper middle-class retirement community. My best friend's mom lives there and she (my best friend) and her wife live in Laguna Niguel which is very close by.

Also, one of my close friends (who's half-way retired but still has a kind of online business), is getting ready to move there (Laguna Woods) in less than two weeks.

Someone else posted it may have been a relationship situation and I'm inclined to think that may be a possibility as far a motive goes. I guess we'll hear more about it as the days go by.

[cynical_idealist]

50. I live about 2 miles from that church.

The area is generally pretty safe and quiet, but you never know when someone will go crazy.

Choppers flying around all night. Not sure if they were looking for another suspect
or justifying their helicopter budget.

peace