by AFP
New footage shakes California as police investigate dance hall murders
Seven people were killed in two new shootings that shook California on Monday, 48 hours after a 72-year-old man killed 11 people at a Lunar New Year celebration in the Los Angeles area. Half Moon Bay, a Pacific coastal community near San Francisco. Providing media information, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said seven people were killed and one injured in the twin gunfire, and a 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident named Zhao Chunli. had been detained. As the new tragedy unfolded, detectives in the southern tip of the state were still investigating what prompted an elderly Asian immigrant to shoot and kill 11 people who had gathered to celebrate at a suburban dance hall before taking their own lives. Suspect Huu Can Tran killed men and women in their 50s, 60s and 70s using a semi-automatic pistol in Saturday night’s attack in Monterey Park. One person was shot in the parking lot. He then went to another dance studio, where the police said that the “heroic” actions of a young man who had pulled the gun on him had prevented another massacre. Hours later, as the police were moving, Tran shot himself to death. Tran, who was arrested in 1994 for possession of an illegal firearm, fired 42 shots in the attack, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said on Monday. Are you crazy to do this? We don’t know. But we intend to find out,” Monterey Park resident Chester Hong told AFP on Sunday, saying he believes the attack may have been rooted in a family dispute over an invitation to a Lunar New Year party.Luna confirmed that officers were told Tran may have been known to some of his victims. ., but said that cu There is no evidence that he has any relatives at the moment.- ‘Unfriendly’ – On Monday, a picture of a man who had immigrated from China and was a regular of Star Ballroom Dance Studio, according to his marriage certificate, began to emerge from the past. .Tran’s ex-wife told CNN that the couple met there twenty years ago and offered to give Tran unofficial lessons. The woman, who did not want to be named, said they married shortly after, but the relationship did not work out. He said that Tran, who sometimes works as a truck driver, is not violent but can be impatient. The man said he would complain about his dance teachers. CNN claimed he would say “nasty things about her”. The man told the broadcaster that he was “hostile to a lot of people out there.” Luna.P City police said earlier this month that Tran found a rifle, electronics and ammunition 85 miles (140 miles) east of Los Angeles. He said he made allegations of theft and poisoning. Since a young gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, United States last May. All but two were children. The death toll in Monterey Park, one of California’s largest Asian communities, rose to 11 on Monday after one of those injured in the attack died in hospital. The coroner in Los Angeles said all of the dead were in their 50s, 60s or 70s, and named four of the dead as 65-year-old My Nhan, 68-year-old Valentino Alvero, 57-year-old Xiujuan Yu and 63-year-old Lilan Li. “He spent many years going to the dance studio in Monterey Park on weekends.” About the actions of 26-year-old Brandon Tsay, who grapples with the Tran ballroom lobby to snatch his MAC-10 9mm semi-automatic gun from him. I try to use my elbows to get the gun away from him,” Tsay told ABC. Pull him over, create some distance, point the gun at him, intimidate him and say, ‘Get out of here. I will shoot to get away. Go.
