The 72-year-old Monterey Park shooter lived “quietly” alone in a senior community and told police his “family was trying to poison him.” The California Police investigate this Monday the reasons that led to Huu Can Tran, a man of Asian descent, to gun down 10 people while celebrating Lunar New Year at a ballroom in suburban Los Angeles.
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One of the hypotheses of the investigations related to the fact that the shooting was caused by hatred between a “wife and a husband” and that it was a “personal case” taken to horrible extremes.
It is known that Tran was divorced since 2006 and his ex-wife “was invited to the Lunar New Year party at the dance studio he targeted, but she didn’t go.”
The suspect identified as Huu Can Tran, 72, was a regular at the Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park in the western United States, where he gave informal lessons, US media said, and allegedly believed other instructors were saying “bad things.” about him,” said a friend who did not give his name to CNN.
The news network reported that it was unclear how often Tran had visited the studio in recent years.
It is believed that he arrived there around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday (06:20 GMT on Sunday) and opened fire inside, killing 10 people (five men and five women, all between 50 and 60 years old) and wounding 10 more.
He then apparently drove to another dance hall in nearby Alhambra, where authorities believe he intended to carry out a second massacre, but was stopped by a 26-year-old employee who took his gun.
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Security camera footage obtained by ABC television shows the couple fighting in the lobby of the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra.
“By his body language, his facial expression, his eyes, he was looking for people,” the young man who disarmed him, Brandon Tsay, whose grandparents founded the family business, told The New York Times.
Tsay grabbed the suspect’s gun, pointed it at him and yelled, “Go away, get out of here,” he told the newspaper.
The suspect fled. A few hours later, he shot himself inside a white van in Torrance, several miles south on Sunday afternoon as authorities were preparing to arrest him.
Police said the motive for the attack, which occurred as Asian communities around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year holiday, remained a mystery.
CNN reported that Tran, who was an immigrant from China, had met his ex-wife about 20 years ago at the studio in Monterey Park, a city with a majority population of Asian origin.
The network did not identify the ex-wife, but said the couple met when Tran was giving lessons and offered to take a class.
The marriage did not last long and the couple divorced in 2006.
The ex-wife said that Tran was never violent towards her, but he did get frustrated when, for example, she missed a step in a dance.
CNN also interviewed an old friend of Tran’s, who noted that at one point he was attending the studio “every night”.
Tran was “hostile to a lot of people there,” the friend added.
It was not clear if the suspect continued to regularly attend the Monterey Park studio.
Monterey Park, just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, is home to about 60,000 people, most of whom are Asian or Asian American. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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