MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police are investigating the 72-year-old suspect and his past Monday in a search for the motive behind the shooting at a ballroom dance hall in the Los Angeles area. , ended up in a trailer house community. relationship with the club.
Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 11 after health officials said one in 10 injured had died.
Suspect Huu Can Tran, who was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday, claims he was a victim of fraud, theft and poisoning by family members aged 10 to 20. In 2015, he visited the police in his town of Hemet twice this month. Years ago in the LA area, spokesman Alan Reyes told The Associated Press.
Authorities said Trang was found dead in a van after fleeing from trying to attack another dance hall. The mayor of Monterey Park said he may have frequented the first dance hall Tran targeted, and his ex-wife told CNN that she had met him there and offered him free lessons. said to have provided
All but one of the victims were over the age of 60, according to information released Monday by the Los Angeles coroner’s office, which provided initial identification.
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My Nhan, 65, and Lilian Li, 63, were the first two women nominated. There were two other women in her sixties and one in her fifties. Three men in their 70s and two men in their 60s also died.
Authorities have not released the age of the 11th fatality announced by the Los Angeles County Health Department.
Officials share little about Trang.
According to Los Angeles Superior Court records, Tran married in 2001 and divorced five years later due to irreconcilable differences. The couple had no children, no joint property, and neither had to pay alimony.
In the uncontested case, Tran said in a filing that he could not leave work to attend court hearings, but did not disclose where he worked or what he did. .
His ex-wife told CNN that they got married shortly after meeting. She has her name listed in court documents, but she asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the case.
She said she would get mad if she did a wrong dance step, but she never used violence against her.
Tran eventually moved out of the melting pot of Asian immigrants in the San Gabriel Valley and settled in the 55+ mobile home community of Hemet in Riverside County, 75 miles east of Los Angeles. Police searched his home on Sunday night.
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Reyes said Hemet police had no record of an incident involving Trang in the community or a call for service at his home.
The shootings during the Lunar New Year celebrations sent a wave of terror into the Asian-American community and cast a shadow over festivals across the country.
The massacre, the fifth mass murder in the country this month, marks one of California’s biggest holidays seen in many Asian cultures and is a new addition to communities targeted by high-profile violence in recent years. gave a great blow.
It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, when 21 people were killed. Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Law enforcement officials said the rampage could have been even deadlier. The family dances his second The man who runs his hall confronts the assailant in the lobby and takes his gun away. The New York Times reported.
“We understand he may have visited this dance hall, and perhaps the motives have to do with personal relationships. It’s something I think we’re investigating,” said Monterey Park Mayor Henry Law.Tran once had a city and neighborhood address, according to public records.
Mayor and Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna stressed that the motive for the attack remained unclear and that 10 people were injured. No other suspects escaped, sheriffs said.
The suspect was carrying what Luna described as a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine, and a second handgun was found in the van where Tran died.
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Officers arrived at the Star Ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park within three minutes of receiving the call, according to Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese.
There, they found a carnage taking place inside, with people trying to escape through every door.
“When they entered the parking lot, it was chaos,” Wiese said.
About 20 minutes after the initial attack, the attackers broke into the Lai Lai ballroom in the nearby Alhambra city.
Brandon Tsai was in Robbie at the time and said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he thought he was going to die.
“Something hit me. “When I got the courage, I rushed at him with both hands, grabbed my weapon, and we struggled.”
Tsai grabbed a gun and pointed it at the man and shouted.
The assailant paused, but returned to the van and called police with the gun in hand.
Luna told reporters on Sunday that two people had taken weapons from the attackers, while Tsai told The New York Times that she works several days a week at the dance hall her grandparents started. A still from the security footage on America showed only two men struggling to get a gun.
The suspect’s white van was found in Torrance, another community with a large Asian-American population.
After surrounding the vehicle for hours, law enforcement officers swarmed inside. A human body appears to have fallen over the wheels and was later removed. SWAT team members looked through the contents of the van before leaving.
Monterey Park is a city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles with a population of about 60,000, mostly made up of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting took place in the heart of the downtown area, where red lanterns adorned the streets for the Chinese New Year celebrations. A police car was parked near a large banner that read, “Happy New Year!”
The celebration at Monterey Park is one of the largest in California. In the past few years he has planned his two-day celebration which has been attended by as many as 100,000 people. But authorities canceled Sunday’s event following the shooting.
Taxin was reported from Hemet, Dazio from Alhambra, and Melley from Los Angeles. Associated Press journalists Andrew Dalton, Jay C. Hong, Eugene Garcia (Los Angeles), and Julie Watson (San Diego) contributed to this report.
