Posted on 01/23/2023 5:24:00 AM PST by Eleutheria5
California police have identified the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a ballroom dance studio near Los Angeles as Huu Can Tran, 72, who was later found dead in a white van.
He had a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was declared dead at the scene, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said.
Celebrations for Lunar New Year had been under way in Monterey Park, known for its large Asian population.
Police do not yet know the motive.
Another 10 people were wounded in the shooting, and seven are still in hospital - some in a critical condition - the sheriff said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon in Monterey Park.
He added that the 10 people who died were still being identified, but they seemed to be in their 50s and 60s and some perhaps older.
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Police Chief Scott Wiese said that what his officers found was a "scene of carnage", and that the first officers to get there were some of the youngest on his squad, having only just finished their training a few months ago.
"They came across a scene none of them have prepared for," he said. "There were injured people inside and dead people inside. My young officers did their job."
About 30 minutes later, the gunman arrived at another dance studio in the nearby town of Alhambra.
He entered the studio, but according to police, two people managed to wrestle the weapon off him before he escaped.
Brandon Tsay, a 26-year-old coder and the operator of the family-run dance hall, told the New York Times it was he alone who disarmed the gunman. He said Tran was "looking at me and looking around, not hiding that he was trying to do harm".
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CBS reported this morning that the shooter had a “semi-automatic assault pistol”........Sheesh!
I’m guessing the motive is irrelevant now. We wouldn’t want to learn anything to prevent the next shooting except guns are bad
...hate to be cynical, but I am sure the lame-stream media were hoping that this shooter was a white, conservative, MAGA-hat wearing, gun-loving, Constitution-supporting heterosexual male...sorry; just did not turn out that way...sorry for all those folks who were killed and wounded...gang-related, maybe....?? jus’ askin’ ....
“Huu Can Tran”
Obviously the name of a white supremacist.
He was heterosexual and male, and arguing with his wife. He was a dance instructor at the dance studio, and probably was looking for his wife to off her. The FBI is searching his house for MAGA hats/s
Sounds like a name for a book author. Like The Yellow River by IP Freely. Sex Change Surgeries for Dummies by Huu Can Tran.
Again! Ban nondescript white vans!
They cause shooting rampages and suicides.
Nah, he volunteered to provide a distraction from the Brandon document scandal.
I think that’s a Vietnamese surname…
Anyone else?
The extreme far left RAT jackasses can’t control themselves with their “white supremacy” bullsh*t. They’ve got all the Chinese riled up and scared to death that this is the beginning of whitey’s attack on them. Damn the Democrats. Lying biatches. I guess it doesn’t mean nothing that the shooter was a pissed off old chinese guy. It’s still “white supremacy” according to the Bolshie “democrats” regardless of who did the shooting. Bass turds.
...I think he had a cousin or something....Huu Flung Dung or something along those lines....
Notice they’ve already changed the narrative too - it’s no longer “Lunar New Year Party shooting” (inferring an attack on asians) but now an innocuous “dance hall shooting” by some guy who might be asian but with an ASSAULT PISTOL!
I think that’s a Vietnamese surname…
Anyone else?
Media reports say he emingrated from China.
He must have used an AR-Glock 454…
Not enough Asian women murdered by blacks? It’s a racial profiling without a specific suspect.
I doubt that. Nobody cares about either document ‘scandal’
Now your masses will think there has been 2 instead of one shooting. That’s the purpose. WTH is an assault pistol? 🤣
Thanks. Seems like quite the statistical outlier for shooting up a club.
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