Monterey Park shooter: police ask why he attacked dance hall he frequented

Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From Theguardian.com: “Monterey Park shooter: police ask why he attacked dance hall he frequented”. Below is an excerpt from the article.

All 11 victims of the shooting have now been identified, with all of them, except one, being in their 60s and 70s

Investigators in California are searching for answers as to why a 72-year-old man gunned down patrons at a ballroom dance hall on Saturday night, a venue he is said to have frequented.

The community of Monterey Park continues to reel from a weekend massacre that killed 11 people and wounded nine. The gunman, identified as Huu Can Tran, attacked the Star Ballroom Dance Studio then drove to another nearby dance hall where an employee wrestled a weapon away from him, preventing an even greater tragedy.

Robert Luna, the Los Angeles county sheriff, said investigators have not yet established a clear motive and are looking into whether Tran had relationships with the people he shot at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio. Tran was previously arrested for illegally possessing a firearm, had a rifle at home, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and appeared to be manufacturing gun silencers. Investigators are also honing in on the possibility he was motivated by jealousy or other personal animus, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A man who said he had been a longtime friend of Tran told the Associated Press that the gunman had been a regular patron at the Star Ballroom and the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio, the second venue he targeted, and that he griped about the way he thought people treated him there.

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