Four dead, 2 wounded, including suspect, in shooting near Los Angeles

A police officer stands in front of a building after a shooting at an office building in Orange, California, U.S. March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Alex Gallardo

ORANGE, Calif. (Reuters) -Four people were killed, one of them a child, in a shooting on Wednesday at an office building in suburban Los Angeles before the suspect, wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police, was taken into custody, police reported.

The bloodshed in the city of Orange, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, marked the third deadly mass shooting in the United States in less than a month. Authorities offered no explanation as to a possible motive.