Rowland Heights New Year’s Eve Shooting Leaves 4 Dead, Original Shooter Killed

Rowland Heights, located about half an hour east of Los Angeles, is a wealthy, unincorporated community.

Paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced the gunshot victims dead at the scene, according to the news release.

The shooting was first reported just after 8:30 p.m.in the 2200 block of Batson Avenue, Deputy Trina Schrader of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau said in a written statement. All four of the victims were of Caucasian descent with two of them being females and the other two males.

The two other victims killed were the son’s 48-year-old girlfriend who also lives at the house in the Rowland Heights area of the city and a 27-year-old man who was visiting, thecounty sheriff’s department said.

Investigators were talking to surviving witnesses to figure out what led to the father pulling out a semi-automatic pistol and opening fire.

He told the Los Angeles Times that his brother had just gotten hired at a warehouse, where he was to begin his new job Monday.

The son called the police after the shooting and was arrested for allegedly killing his father.

The suspect’s 33-year-old son, identified as Christopher Morey, was able to wrestle the gun away from his father and shot him once, killing him. He was held on $1 million bail.