California Mass Shooting Suspect Knew His Victims, Say Police

The suspect, identified as 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, had closed access gates to the building with bicycle locks which delayed police entering the site.

The gunman in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of four Californians including a nine-year-old child personally knew and targeted his victims in a premeditated attack, police said Thursday. The attack at a small office building in the city of Orange, south of Los Angeles, Wednesday evening followed two mass shootings earlier in March that once again reignited the debate on gun control in the United States. "This was not a random act of violence," said police lieutenant Jennifer Amat at a press conference. "The preliminary motive is believed to be related to a business and personal relationship, which existed between the suspect and all of the victims, and it appears all of the adults were connected either by business or a personal relationship," she said.