At least three people have died and another six have been wounded by the shots of an attacker, who was killed, in a shooting that took place on Wednesday night in a historic biker bar in the town of Trabuco Canyon, in California, according to the police.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a message on social networks, “four deaths at the scene, including the attacker, six taken to hospitals, five with gunshot wounds” and that law enforcement officers participated in the shooting, of the which “none were injured”. According to the Los Angeles Times, two of the injured are in critical condition.

Sergeant Frank González, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, informed the Los Angeles newspaper that at 7:04 p.m. a man armed with a gun inside the bar, who was shot.

The local television network KCAL reported that the attacker was a retired Ventura County Police officer, who was having a dispute with his wife at the scene.

It festered to the point that he ended up shooting several of the people present. The police officers who came to the scene killed the attacker.

Cook’s Corner is a biker hangout since the 1970s, located at the junction of El Toro, Santiago Canyon and Live Oak Canyon roads, near O’Neill Regional Park, and featuring live music performances.

In a message online, Orange County Supervisor (where Trabuco Canyon is located), Katrina Foley, lamented this “senseless” mass shooting, this time in our backyard.

In the United States, mass shootings are usually considered to be those that leave at least four people dead or injured, not counting the attacker.

So far in 2023, more than 640 have been registered across the country, according to the organization Gun Violence Archive, which maintains a database on gun violence.