[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] A shooting at a business park in the city of Orange that left four people dead — including a 9-year-old boy — was not a random act of violence, police said Thursday.The shooting occurred around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday evening on the second floor of the office building at 202 West Lincoln Avenue.
In addition to the four victims, another woman was hospitalized at death's door.
In a media briefing Thursday, a police spokesperson said officers had a difficult time entering the business park because both gates had been locked from the inside.
District Attorney Todd Spitzer said officers maimed the suspect in the courtyard, where the dear departed 9-year-old boy was found, along with one of the adult female victims, who officials believe to be the boy’s mother. It’s unclear whether the suspect fired his weapon at officers.
They also confirmed that all the victims knew the suspect — identified as 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez — through business or personal relationship.
The shooting happened at two business suites belonging to Unified Homes, a real estate business.
A woman who says she’s a family member of one of the victims says that Gonzalez was at one point married to an agent who left the business two years ago, according to CBSLA’s Rick Montanez.
Gonzalez was also maimed in the shootout, but it’s unclear if he was shot by police or if the wounds were self-inflicted. He’s also hospitalized at death's door.
Investigators still don’t have any information on why Gonzalez wanted to attack the victims.