At least three people were killed and six more were injured. gunshots from an assailant who also died in a shootout Wednesday night at a historic biker bar in Trabuco Canyon, Calif., police said.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office made the announcement in a post on social media site X (formerly Twitter). “Four died on the spot, including the attacker, six were taken to hospitals, five with gunshot wounds” and that law enforcement officers were involved in the shooting, of whom “no one was hurt”.

according to the newspaper Los Angeles TimesYes, Two of the victims are in critical condition.

Sergeant Frank Gonzalez, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, told the Los Angeles newspaper that around 7:04 p.m. a call came in about a shooting at the Cook’s Corner bar, and two minutes later, the first agents arrived on the scene, finding a man armed with a pistol in the bar, on whom they opened fire.

This was reported by the local broadcaster KCAL, owned by CBS. assailant is a retired Ventura County police officerwho there had an argument with his wife, which went as far as to shoot several of those present.

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Police arrived at the scene and shot the attacker, who was killed.

Cook’s Corner has been a meeting place for bikers since the 1970s. which is located at the crossroads of El Toro, Santiago Canyon, and Live Oak Canyon, close to O’Neill Regional Park, and offers live music performances.

In a post on social media X, an Orange County executive (where Trabuco Canyon is located) Katrina Foley laments this ‘senseless’ mass shootingthis time in our backyard.”

In the US they are often considered mass shootings resulting in at least four deaths or injuries, apart from the attacker.

So far in 2023 there has been over 640 across the countryAccording to the Gun Violence Archive, which maintains a database on gun violence.

(according to information from EFE)