Breaking news :Lunar New Year Massacre... 10 Dead, 10 Seriously Hurt..Monterey Park California..

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A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio amid Lunar New Year celebrations and then probably tried - but failed - to target a second dance hall, authorities said Sunday.

An hours-long manhunt led police to surround and enter a white van, but it was not immediately clear whether the suspect was inside.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra.

The suspect in both cases was described as an Asian male. He entered the Alhambra club with a gun, and people wrested the weapon away from him before he fled, Luna said.

Authorities believe the two events are connected. They offered no details about a possible motive.

The shooting and manhunt sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area and cast a shadow over Lunar New Year festivities around the country. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations.

California SWAT officers then finally ended an epic three-hour standoff when they broke into the vehicle and pulled out a mound of bloody sheets on Sunday afternoon.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-standoff-white-van-linked-mass-shooting.html
 

The Police are hunting this man

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The man who carried out a mass shooting killing 10 people at a dance studio in southern California where he once taught lessons was remembered as being hostile toward his students and quick to get angry with his ex-wife.

Huu Can Tran, 72, died on Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with police ending a manhunt that unfolded the night before with a deadly rampage at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California.

Sources indicated the gunman was hunting for his current wife and the motive for the attack was a domestic dispute.

Tran gave dance lessons at the studio in the early 2000s, where he met his first wife. The pair quickly tied the knot, but their marriage had crumbled by 2005.

A source told LA Mag: 'There is increasing evidence this was domestic violence.'

Chester Chong, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and a community leader in Monterey Park, said the suspect may have been jealous about not being invited to a party his wife attended, saying: 'This hate is because of wife and husband. I believe because of that there was the killing of innocent people.'

The ex-wife, who didn't want her identity revealed, told CNN that Tran became easily angered when she messed up on choreography and she felt as if he had lost interest in her.

Another person who was close to Tran told CNN that the man was 'hostile to a lot of people' at the studio where he taught and believed they said 'evil things about him.'
 
The article goes back and forth between "wife" and "ex-wife" so I can't tell if there were two wives involved or not. Did the wife he was after survive the shooting?

I just can't get over anger and finally a shooting in a ballroom dance studio. That would be my happy place.

Who goes out to commit a crime in the most distinctive hat ever? That alone makes me think there might have been some dementia involved.
 
The sheriff said the pistol Tran used appeared to be illegal in California, where state laws ban any magazine holding more than 10 rounds.

Another gun, a handgun, was later found in the van where Tran was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Luna added that the van had different plates.

Authorities had been on the lookout for the vehicle after witnesses reported seeing the suspect fleeing Alhambra. He was also spotted seeking medical treatment at a hospital shortly before the standoff, law enforcement sources tell CNN.

The man came into the emergency room seeking treatment for injuries that were consistent with being in a fight. He waited for a short time and then left without receiving treatment, the sources said.

The hospital notified authorities when they saw that the man fit the description of the suspect's photos posted on the sheriff's department's Twitter feed.

A short time later, police in Torrance pulled the white van over which led to the three-hour standoff.

By midday, police in tactical vehicles and bomb-squad trucks surrounded a white van in a parking lot 22 miles from Alhambra in Torrance, another majority Asian community.

It ended as police approached the vehicle and heard a gunshot. Tran was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The mass shooting sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area and cast a shadow over Lunar New Year festivities around the country. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations.
 
hollydolly said:
I'm wondering..is this the first Chinese serial killer.. attack on a Chinese community in the USA ?
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Maybe, but the list of qualifiers you need to add to such a statement is getting longer...

Charles Ng is a US Chinese serial killer, but I don't know the ethnicity of his victims... He sits on death row right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng
 
Alligatorob said:
Maybe, but the list of qualifiers you need to add to such a statement is getting longer...

Charles Ng is a US Chinese serial killer, but I don't know the ethnicity of his victims... He sits on death row right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng
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Oh , it was just a thought tbh.. I couldn't remember hearing of a Mass Chinese killing by one person in the US Chinese community...
 
hollydolly said:
The man came into the emergency room seeking treatment for injuries that were consistent with being in a fight. He waited for a short time and then left without receiving treatment, the sources said.
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If Tran hadn't had to wait so long, he probably would have said things during treatment for his injuries that told the doctor he was mentally ill, been given a sedative, admitted for a 24 hour evaluation, and none of this would have happened.
 
Della said:
If Tran hadn't had to wait so long, he probably would have said things during treatment for his injuries that told the doctor he was mentally ill, been given a sedative, admitted for a 24 hour evaluation, and none of this would have happened.
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I must have read it wrong, I thought he went to the Emergency room after the shooting but before the Standoff.. :unsure:
 
hollydolly said:
I must have read it wrong, I thought he went to the Emergency room after the shooting but before the Standoff.. :unsure:
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Eh, on second reading I think it was I who read it wrong. I was too eager to get on my hobby horse about insufficient care for the mentally ill.
 
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