Orange County has been the scene of several mass or spree attacks, including Wednesday’s shooting at Cook’s Corner in Trabuco Canyon that left four dead, including the shooter, and six others shot.
Before Wednesday, the most recent mass shooting in Orange County at a church in Laguna Woods on May 15, 2022. One person was killed and five others were shot.
David Wenweii Chou is now facing nearly 100 federal hate crime, weapons and explosives counts, the Department of Justice announced nearly a year after the mass shooting.
An indictment returned by a grand jury at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana charged Chou of 45 counts of obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs by force, which prosecutors say resulted in one death and attempts to kill 44 others through the use of a gun, explosives or fire.
Orange County has been the scene of several mass or spree attacks, including one at a real estate office in Orange on March 31, 2021.
Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez was charged with special circumstances murder for the killings of Jenevieve Raygoza, 28; Luis Tovar, 50; Leticia Solis Guzman, 58; and Matthew Farias, 9. He was also charged with the attempted murder of Matthew’s mother, Blanca Ismeralda Tamayo, and for allegedly shooting at two officers who weren’t injured. Gonzalez was shot in the confrontation and has been found not competent to stand trial.
Here are some of the other crimes Orange County has experienced:
Scott Dekraai killed eight people and injured a ninth during a mass shooting at a Seal Beach salon on Oct. 12, 2011 in what stands as the worst mass killing in Orange County history. Dekraai admitted to the murders. When he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole an Orange County judge told Dekraai that “The gates of Hell flew open and you emerged as the face of evil in this community.”
Edward Charles Allaway, a Cal State Fullerton janitor who had served in the Marines, on July 12, 1976 walked room to room at the…
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