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According to a source, detectives looking into the shooting death of 11 individuals at a dance hall in California where they were celebrating the Lunar New Year are determining whether jealousy or a personal conflict was to blame.
On a shooting rampage on Saturday night in the Monterey Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Huu Can Tran, 72, killed men and women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. The parking lot saw one shooting victim.
He then drove to another dance school, where police claim that only the “heroic” efforts of a young guy who pulled the gun away from him stopped another massacre.
Tran killed himself hours later as cops closed in on his white van.
Robert Luna, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, reported on Monday that Tran, who had been detained in 1994 for illegally possessing a pistol, had fired 42 shots during the assault.
But he said that there was still a lot we didn’t know.
He told reporters, “We still don’t have a reason, but we want to uncover the motive behind this unfortunate act.”
What possessed the madman to do this? We have no idea. However, we want to find out.”
According to the Los Angeles Times, detectives were investigating Tran’s prior ties to the two dancing businesses on Monday, focusing particularly on their personal contacts.
Chester Hong, a local of Monterey Park, told AFP on Sunday that he thought the attack may have been motivated by a marital argument over an invitation to a Lunar New Year’s Eve party.
He said, “The husband cannot be invited; the wife (was) invited to attend the celebration.” “And the husband might be enraged and envious.
Although there is currently no proof Tran is related to any of his victims, Luna said that officers had been informed that Tran may have known some of them.
‘Hostile’
On Monday, a picture of a man who had previously been a regular at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio and who, according to his marriage license, had immigrated from China started to surface.
The couple first met there twenty years ago when Tran volunteered to give her informal lessons, according to his ex-wife, who spoke to CNN.
They married shortly after, according to the woman, who wished to remain unnamed, but the union did not endure, and the divorce was finalized in 2006.
She claimed that Tran, who occasionally worked as a truck driver, was occasionally irritable but not violent.
According to a man who claimed to have previously known Tran, the dancing instructor would complain that students would say “bad things about him,” according to CNN.
According to the broadcaster, he was “hostile to many people there.”
According to Luna, police found a weapon, electronics, and ammo when they searched Tran’s mobile home in Hemet, California, which is 140 kilometers (85 miles) east of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles area was the subject of Tran’s “fraud, theft, and poisoning charges” made earlier this month, according to police in the city.
Her final waltz
The mass shooting on Saturday night was the worst to happen in the country since a young gunman in Uvalde, Texas killed 21 people at an elementary school last May. Only two weren’t kids.
One of those hurt in the attack died in the hospital on Monday, bringing the total from Monterey Park, one of California’s largest Asian communities, to 11.
One person was still in a bad condition after being treated at the hospital, according to the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center.
Four of the dead were identified as My Nhan, 65, Valentino Alvero, 68, Xiujuan Yu, 57, and Lilan Li, 63, by the coroner in Los Angeles, who stated that all of the deceased were in their 50s, 60s, or 70s.
In the words of Nhan’s family, the tragedy “still sinks in.”
According to a statement, she spent many years spending her weekends at the dance facility in Monterey Park.
She enjoyed doing it, so. But unfairly, Saturday was the last dance she ever did.
The Lunar New Year is off to a rocky start for us.
Stories of optimism and bravery also surfaced amidst so much grief.
Security video captured Brandon Tsay, 26, tussling with Tran in the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio lobby in Alhambra as he attempted to take Tran’s MAC-10 9mm semiautomatic handgun from him.
Tsay told ABC that during the scuffle, “I went at him with all my hands, grabbed the weapon, and had a fight.”
“He was punching me in the face and the back of my head, and I was using my elbows to attempt to pull the gun away from him.
Finally, I was able to get the gun away from him at one point, push him aside to gain some distance, point the gun at him, and frighten him while yelling, “Get the hell out of here. I shall fire. Leave now. Go.'”
Tsay’s gallant deed, in the words of Luna, “saved numerous lives,” she applauded.
What a courageous man he is.
