Posted on 01/22/2023 7:47:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES — The suspect in Saturday night's Lunar New Year mass shooting in Southern California was identified Sunday after he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
"The suspect in that tragedy is no longer with us," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. "He is no longer a threat."
Luna named the man as Huu Can Tran, 72. The question why, however, in the attack that killed 10 people and injured 10 others at a Monterey Park dance hall, remained.
"We still are not clear on a motive," Luna said at an early evening news conference Sunday. "We want to know."
Earlier, sources familiar with the investigation said the person in a white van subjected to a traffic stop in the coastal city of Torrance, about 30 miles from the violence, fit the description of a person seen at crime scenes in Monterey Park and adjacent Alhambra.
Luna said authorities believe the deceased person is indeed the suspect seen at both locations.
Authorities, including SWAT officers, surrounded and then breached the van, where the person was found dead in the early afternoon, Luna said. The vehicle had plates "that didn't belong on the vehicle," he said.
A search of the van turned up "several pieces of evidence" that linked the suspect to the crime scenes in neighboring San Gabriel Valley cities, Luna said. A handgun was also found in the van, he said.
Monterey Park police officers first responded to a dance hall, identified in government records as Star Ballroom Dance, after reports of a shooting came in at 10:22 p.m. Saturday, Luna said. People were rushing out of the hall as officers went into the business.
Ten people were killed at the venue, and 10 others were taken to hospitals
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Interesting Vietnamese
Diversity breeds chaos and enmity. It’s only going to get worse folks. Diversity is the national religion, and any questioning of it is heresy.
First of all - you are SO on top of things! Thanks!
Secondly:
“The suspect in that tragedy is no longer with us,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. “He is no longer a threat.”
So, he’s pinin’ for the Fjords? Good. Saves the Taxpayers some cash for a trial and, ‘three hots and a cot’ until he died of natural causes.
Next round of ‘gun legislation’ pimped by the Socialist Democrats will be on the floor by dawn!
“Diversity is the national religion, and any questioning of it is heresy.“
Technically the lefties violated the 1st amendment. Not that they ever believed in the constitution, except when it served their nefarious purposes.
Whoa, the murderer had an illegal gun, SHOCKING!
72?
Why did he do this?
Here is a Wikipedia article on it: Binghamton shooting.
He killed 13, wounded 4, and committed suicide at the crime scene.
Interesting Vietnamese indeed.
I remember a few years ago one of the Hmong had killed six hunters from a tree stand in rural Wisconsin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Vang
You’re kind of an idiot, aren’t you.
RE: Why did he do this?
We have to be patient, his motives will be revealed eventually.
Maybe a domestic thing. His wife was invited to the dance thing, but not him. That’s the speculation.
It's probably not White Supremacy, but I won't be surprised if the media tries to say that it is.
Have to wonder if this guy was a veteran of the ARVN and had a grudge against some of the people in that room or some form of PTSD. Many ARVN vets made it here and don’t think they get the support that most American vets of the war get even in their own community.
Driving while dead? Add that to the list of charges.
Domestic issue....apparently bad relationship with wife. Daily Mail rported that th owner regularly invited some and not others for special events...he was not invited. Whatever that means I see this as a disgruntled husband full of anger and revenge takes it out on those in that dance studio.
Would be interesting to know if his wife was one of those shot...and if or not she lived.
“We still are not clear on a motive,” Luna said.
Yeah, right. Stop being politically correct and submissive to corrupt politicians. We all know the motive: lack of charity.
Or a VC or NVA reliving TET '68 vicariously thru TET '23. He would have been 17 in '68, I went in the Army at 17 and in the field at 18, plus a lot of d***s were very young in the ranks in the VC.
According to Sheriff Luna, after leaving the scene in Monterey Park, the suspect targeted another dance club in the nearby Alhambra. However, two people in the party room managed to pull the gun from the suspect’s hand, forcing Huu Can Tran to flee the scene.
Police approach the pickup truck suspected of the perpetrator of the shooting in Monterey Park, California, USA on January 22. Video: ABC7.
“They saved so many lives, the situation could have been worse,” said police chief Luna, praising those who stopped the suspect at the Alhambra and calling them heroes.
The weapon that people took from the suspect in Alhambra was a 9 mm Cobray M11 submachine gun with a multi-round magazine. Local police rely on this gun to track down the suspect, but investigators are not sure if this is the gun that Huu Can Tran used in the Monterey Park shooting.
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Huu Can Tran is considered one of the oldest shooting suspects in the US. The oldest public shooter in the country is James Wenneker von Brunn, who opened fire at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009 at the age of 88.
In June 2007, suspect James Hodgkinson, 66, opened fire on Republican congressmen at a baseball field in Virginia, injuring five people. Hodgkinson was killed by police in the ensuing gunfight.
https://vnexpress.net/my-cong-bo-danh-tinh-nghi-pham-xa-sung-o-california-4562926.html
The Most Useless Gun I Own: The Cobray M-11/9
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/the-most-useless-gun-i-own-the-cobray-m-11-9/
Apparently not, though it might explain how it was taken from him at the Alhambra.
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