Coroner's office working to identify victims of Monterey Park mass shooting

Torrance, CA - January 22: Gun shot holes in the windows are visible as investigators work the scene where police say a man slumped over the wheel of a white van, apparently deceased due to a self-inflicted gunshot, is connected to Saturday nights Lunar New Year mass shooting in Monterey Park. Torrance SWAT officers surrounded the van as the driver appeared slumped over the wheel in Torrance Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. At least two bullet holes had been visible in the drivers-side window. Just before 1 p.m. Sunday, a SWAT team swarmed the vehicle and smashed its windows in the parking lot of Tokyo Central, a Japanese grocery store near the southwest corner of Hawthorne and Sepulveda boulevards. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Authorities are working to identify the victims of the shooting in Monterey Park, California, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.

“Please keep in mind that especially with the deceased victims, the coroner’s office retrieved the remains not that long ago. So, they’re still in the process of identifying,” Luna told reporters Sunday. “There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done to answer a lot of questions that all of us have.”

Luna said that because the victims haven’t all been identified, he couldn’t say their exact ages, but gave a range.

“I don’t have the specific ages because they have not been identified. But they’re not in their 20s or 30s. They seem to be probably, I would say, in their 50s, 60s, and maybe some even beyond that,” Luna said.