Child Among 4 Dead At Office Park Shooting In Orange

ORANGE, CA —A gunman killed four people, including a child at an office park in Orange Wednesday evening. The shooter was wounded in a firefight with police and taken into custody.

One surviving victim, a woman, was hospitalized in critical condition as was the suspect, according to Orange Police Department Lt. Jen Amat. Both were rushed to a trauma center. Police could not confirm if the shooter was wounded in the exchange of gunfire with police or if he shot himself. A firearm was recovered at the scene, according to Amat.

A motive for the shooting and the name of the suspect were not immediately available.

Ages, genders and names of the victims were not disclosed. Relatives with questions about loved ones who may have been victims of the shooting were asked to go to the Orange Police Department.

The shooting occurred on multiple levels of an office complex in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officers from multiple agencies responded to reports of gunfire and arrived as shots were still ringing out. Inside, they found multiple bodies and one surviving victim who had been wounded, according to Lt. Jennifer Amat with the Orange Police Department.

Amat confirmed to reporters that the suspect exchanged gunfire with responding officers. There were no reports of officer injuries in the exchange.

The mass shooting in the city of Orange was the nation's third mass shooting in three weeks. It follows a shooting spree at three Atlanta spas that killed eight people, and at a Boulder supermarket massacre that killed 10.

Orange County has been through this before. It was Orange County's fourth mass shooting including the city of Orange CalTrans shooting where five were killed, Seal Beach salon shooting that killed 8 in 2011 and the Cal State Fullerton shooting that took seven lives in 1976.

"I can tell you that we haven't had an incident like this in the city of Orange since 1997, our Caltrans shooting," Amat said at a briefing around 10 p.m. "It's such a tragedy for the victims, their families, our community and our police department. So our condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to all of them."

In that incident, five people were killed and two others wounded in that 1997 shooting after former a state employee, Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, of Huntington Beach, opened fire at the Caltrans facility near Batavia Street and Taft Avenue.

Torres was shot and killed by police a short distance away from the maintenance yard.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called Wednesday's shooting "horrifying and heartbreaking."

"Our hearts are with the families impacted by this terrible tragedy, Newsom tweeted.

The city's congresswoman, Rep. Katie Porter, released a statement on the shooting.

"I’m deeply saddened by reports of a mass shooting in Orange County, and I’m continuing to keep victims and their loved ones in my thoughts as we continue to learn more. My team and I will continue to monitor the situation closely," said Porter.

A mass shooting is defined as one where four or more victims are killed with firearms -- not including the offender or offenders -- in a public location, such as a workplace, school or restaurant, when the perpetrator or perpetrators selects the victims somewhat indiscriminately.

The definition excludes domestic shootings, gang-, drug- and organized- crime-related shootings.

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Patch Editor Ashley Ludwig contributed to this report.