5 Things To Know About The City Of Orange Mass Shooting

ORANGE, CA —Four people, including a child, were shot to death at a real estate office in the city of Orange Wednesday night, police said.

Here are five things to know about the mass shooting incident.

1. Police arrested a suspect identified as 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez of Fullerton after a firefight at a city of Orange office complex around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The office is located in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue. The shooter's motive were not released as of this report.
2. Two people were rushed to a nearby trauma center after the gunfight was over. One surviving victim — a woman who was not named—was hospitalized in critical condition after the shooting. Her son was found, dead, in her arms, according to OCDA Todd Spitzer. The gunman, who sustained gunshot wounds during the incident, was also hospitalized. Both are in critical but stable condition.
3. The mass shooting was the third in the nation in the past three weeks. A mass shooting spree took place in Atlanta in which eight people were killed at three spas. A mass shooting also happened at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, killing 10 people.
4. The city of Orange shooting is the fourth mass shooting incident in Orange County. In 1976, a mass shooting occurred at California State University, Fullerton, where seven people were killed. In 1997, a former employee of CalTrans shot and killed five people in the city of Orange. In 2011, the largest mass shooting in Orange County's history took place in Seal Beach at a hair salon, in which eight people died.
5. Authorities have not yet released the names of the victims of Wednesday's shooting or their relationship to the shooter. Patch will update this report when that information is made known.

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