“It’s unreal...” say neighbors of WH dinner shooting suspect, expressing shock over the incident

Apr 27, 2026

Residents of Torrance said they were “shocked” to learn that the suspect who fired at a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on April 25 was their neighbor. The suspect lived with his parents in a two-story house on a tree-lined street with picket fences and craftsman-style homes in the historic district of Torrance, a seaside town in the South Bay area of greater Los Angeles. Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood on Sunday said they were only casually acquainted with him and his parents, with most saying they never spoke...