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– As the death toll rose to 11 in the Monterey Park shooting rampage, authorities were pressed to explain why it took five hours after Saturday’s carnage to alert the public that the killer was on the loose.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday that his department was “strategic” in its decision to release information but that he would review what happened. The shooting took place late Saturday night, and the department reported several hours later that the unknown assailant was at large.
“When we started putting out public information, the priority was to get this person into custody,” Luna said. “Ultimately it worked. We will go back and look at it as we always do.“
Luna said his department would evaluate how it handled the release of information.
„Nobody is as critical as ourselves as to what worked and specifically what didn’t work,“ he said.
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At 2:49 a.m., more than four hours after the initial 911 calls, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau issued a news advisory confirming fatalities and that the suspect was male, but there was no mention of the status of the investigation.
