My Grandfather came to America as a youth and learned to speak English without an accent and only spoke English in his home so my mother only new his original language minimally....his sister a few years older never ever learned the language.
Go figure, but dont assume that being here 20 years is a guarantee of language proficiency.
I just saw the home owner (shooter, victim) on the local news, making a statement. In English. Pretty good English, at that. Now, I’m not saying that because he speaks English that he should have known what was going on. He reacted the same way I probably would. But, in situations like this, the local victim advocates are always rushing to tell the media that so-and-so doesn’t speak English and the system is screwed up and it’s my fault and we need to raise taxes so that everybody gets training in all of the foreign languages that are spoken in the Twin Cities.
Rant over.