In the first three weeks of 2023, at least 67 people have been killed in mass shootings across the US, including two within days of each other in California.
The deadliest shooting so far took place over the weekend in Monterey Park, California, where a gunman killed 11 people and wounded nine others inside a popular ballroom dance hall. Police said the gunman, who may have targeted his victims and who later killed himself, was a 72-year-old man.
Then, on Monday, came another deadly mass shooting in California.
A gunman killed seven people at two agricultural businesses in Northern California, plunging the state