In California has killed three visitors to a Bowling-hall, by gunfire. According to police in Torrance were injured in the attack in the night of Saturday, four people.

7.39 PM: All the victims were men, said a statement from the authorities. About the perpetrators, there was initially no information. The investigators provided no information on a possible motive.

eyewitnesses described according to media reports, in the Bowling hall, a fight broke out, then more shots had fallen. Visitors spoke of chaotic scenes in the hall. “We are running into the Bar and have sought protection,” said Jesus Perez, the Los Angeles Times. He had about four shots. Only after a quarter of an hour in his hiding place, he had been a security officer from the building directed.

“The screaming people. It was bad,“ said an eye-witness to the transmitter CNN. People searched for their relatives, many families were there. According to the media two 28-year-old men are among the dead.

according to The police, the attack began in the well-attended hall in the city of Torrance on the southern edge of Los Angeles on Friday shortly before midnight local time (09.00 hrs CET). According to the website of the Gable House Bowl, the Bowling hall is open on weekends until 3.00 am in the morning. Midnight Bowling is played in a “Rock-n-Glow”Party. The facility will also be described as a popular meeting place for families.

This is the messages from Saturday

Update from 14.09 at: About the or the perpetrators begin with, there was still no information.
“A lot of people ran to the rear in the bar area. The people were screaming. It’s something bad,“ said a witness to CNN. People searched for their relatives, many families were there. According to CNN, the hall on Saturdays it is open until 3.00 in the morning. Until midnight Bowling will be played, followed by a “Rock-n-Glow”Party.

Torrance near Los Angeles/USA: shots in the bowling centre, Three Dead

Update 12.53 PM: Three people were shot, four more had been injured by the shots, was confirmed by a police spokesman to the AFP news Agency. All of the victims were male. The incident occurred in the seaside village of Torrance, approximately 30 kilometres Southeast of the centre of the Californian metropolis.

passers-by were asked to avoid the area. “The police on the spot, the investigations are underway, please stay away from the area,” wrote the police in Twitter. The shots had fallen in the game halls, a complex of Gable House Bowl. An eye witness told the newspaper “Los Angeles Times” previously, there had been a “big fight”.

Update 12.24 PM: Three people were killed, four more injured, reported the CNN channel on Saturday, citing the police.

background of the attack, which occurred at about midnight local time (09.00 GMT) in the city of Torrance on the southern edge of Los Angeles, were initially not known. The police had previously reported, there were reports that many of the victims were being shot. The citizens were called to the area to keep. The use of the course.

Update 12.02 PM: The “Los Angeles Times” reported that the shots had fallen in the game halls, a complex of Gable House Bowl. An eye witness told the newspaper that there had been a “major dispute” before the shots had been fired.

shots in the bowling center: Multiple victims – police warns citizens

There were reports that several people were on the ground, police said on Saturday, in the short message service Twitter.

The incident occurred in the seaside village of Torrance, approximately 30 kilometres to the Southeast of the Californian metropolis. Passers-by were asked, “in the area to stay away from”.

there are in the United States, where the right to bear Arms in the Constitution of fatal attacks with firearms is enshrined. According to a study, the US citizens own 40 percent of private firearms worldwide, although they account for only four percent of the world’s population. Of the world’s 857 million firearms privately owned 393 million are in the United States.

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