Monterey Park

Multiple people were shot late Saturday in Monterey Park, California, a city near Los Angeles hosting a Lunar New Year festival this weekend.

"Monterey Park is home to one of the largest #AAPI communities in the country. The incident in Alhambra also occurred at a dance studio, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC. We are monitoring the situation closely." The L.A. "Even though the incident did not occur at the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival, an active investigation is currently underway and the area near and around the festival is affected. on West Garvey Avenue, near the downtown blocks where the festival was being held. More than 65% of Monterey Park's about 60,000 residents identify as Asian American, according to the U.S. [Monterey Park Lunar New Year Festival](https://www.montereypark.ca.gov/669/Lunar-New-Year-Festival) this weekend, marking the beginning of the Chinese lunar calendar. The annual two-day street festival is widely attended, with previous celebrations drawing as many as 100,000 daily visitors, according to the city. Officials said Saturday's festival events were scheduled to finish at 9 p.m. The gunman has not been identified and remains at large Sunday morning, said Capt. He directed her to make sure that the FBI is providing full support to local authorities, and to update him regularly today as more details are known," the White House press secretary tweeted.

Driving the news: The shooting took place at a ballroom dance studio around 10:22 p.m. Saturday night, and the suspected shooter remains at large, Capt. Andrew ...

This tremendous act of violence, on one of the most important days of the year for many Asian Americans, at a place where Asian American families come to gather and celebrate, is sending shockwaves through our community." - "I want to assure the community of Monterey Park and the broader area that we will support you in every way we can," Biden said. "After a day of celebration, we are waking up to a nightmare... this year, per the State of play: President Biden on Sunday evening ordered the U.S. Zoom in: Monterey Park was hosting a two-day Lunar New Year celebration this weekend. [statement](https://twitter.com/StopAAPIHate/status/1617221230805016577) Sunday, calling the shooting "devastating beyond words." [tweeted](https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1617181942532784129), "Families deserve to celebrate the holidays in peace — mass shootings and gun violence are a plague on our communities." - "It is horrible that such a thing could occur at a time of celebration for so many in the AAPI community and in the Asian community worldwide," she said. [released photos](https://twitter.com/LACoSheriff/status/1617241146710962178)earlier Sunday of the suspected shooter, whom they said was an Asian man they described as "armed and dangerous," as law enforcement investigated the other incident in Alhambra. [two civilians disarmed](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/california-shooting-montery-park-alhambra-heroes)the suspect. [mass shooting](https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/deadliest-mass-shootings-modern-us-history) in Monterey Park, California, a [majority Asian American](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting) city east of Los Angeles, left 10 people dead and 10 others injured on the eve of Lunar New Year Saturday night, local authorities said.

A manhunt is underway for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.

The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls full of small businesses, whose signs are in both English and Chinese. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed: “Happy Year of the Rabbit!” He directed her to make sure that the FBI is providing full support to local authorities, and to update him regularly today as more details are known.” The Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest and attracted tens of thousands throughout the day. It is also the deadliest since May 24, 2022, when 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas, according to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S. He said the 10 people, including five men and five women, who died did so at the spot in the city of Monterey Park where the shooting took place. The database defines a mass killing as four people killed, not including the perpetrator. Meyer said people were “pouring out of the location screaming” when officers arrived at around 10:30 p.m. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that the wounded were taken to hospital and their conditions range from stable to critical. Luna did not have the exact ages of the victims but said they all appeared to be over 50. Law enforcement officials swarmed and entered the white van Sunday afternoon following the shooting. The investigation continues.

Ten people have died following a shooting at a ballroom dance studio in the Californian city of Monterey Park, near Los Angeles, police said.

The gunman remains on the loose after his attack at a popular dance club in the majority-Asian city.

Instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence." "It was a beautiful, festive occasion because, [for] two and a half years of the pandemic, they had to postpone [it]. You could see the smiles and everyone just so happy…

A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio amid Lunar New Year celebrations and then may have tried -- but failed -- to target a second dance hall ...

[Business](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business) ['PR job' or antidote to 'groupthink'? At least 71 drivers have gotten tickets so far for violating noise rules during a yearlong pilot program of the system. Public officials say this decision will be important as they urge Canadians to get boosters and to stay vigilant. Provincial police have said they believe Fritznel Richard, 44, likely died of hypothermia while trying to enter the United States. An hours-long manhunt led police to surround and enter a white van, but it was not immediately clear whether the suspect was inside. The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park's main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.” It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. The suspect in both cases was described as an Asian male. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations.

Waiting for details to emerge, there was the familiar apprehension experienced by so many Asian Americans since attacks against them began to soar during ...

I returned to the history in front of me. I thought about a massacre that had taken place about a hundred and fifty years earlier in Los Angeles, just a few miles west of the site of the Monterey Park shooting. I thought about the emotions that I’d just experienced. Apparently just another mass shooting in America, the latest evidence that the country is overrun by guns. [evening of October 24, 1871](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/remembering-a-victim-of-an-anti-asian-attack-a-hundred-and-fifty-years-later), an angry mob, bearing knives, pistols, and clubs, surrounded the city’s Chinese quarter and began dragging out terrified residents. Just last week, my family and I had been at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, for a middle-school basketball game, when the girls behind us began getting rowdy. “As far as motive,” he said, “it’s too early in the investigation to know what the motive is.” On the For the weekend, my aim had been to finish a chapter about a harrowing episode, in February, 1885, when the white citizens of Eureka, California, rounded up more than three hundred Chinese residents in the town and surrounding region and herded them onto a pair of steamships bound for San Francisco. “The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. Saturday night had been the eve of the Lunar New Year. (The death toll would soon be updated to ten.) The shooting had taken place in the vicinity of a local Lunar New Year festival that had ended earlier in the evening.

About 65% of Monterey Park's residents are of Asian descent, according to the US Census Bureau. The shooting happened near Monterey Park's Lunar New Year ...

Another long-time acquaintance of Tran’s also remembered him as a frequent presence at the dance studio. Instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence,” Gov. “Monterey Park should have had a night of joyful celebration of the Lunar New Year. Both [the non-profit](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/) and CNN define a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter. “They came across a scene that none of them had been prepared for,” the chief added. Multiple pieces of evidence found in the van linked the shooter to both the Alhambra and Monterey Park incidents. Tran filed for divorce in late 2005, and a judge approved the divorce the following year, Los Angeles court records show. Saturday and found people “pouring out of the location, screaming,” said Capt. “There were at least 10 other victims who were transported to numerous local hospitals and are listed in various conditions from stable to critical,” Meyer said. This is a time when residents should be celebrating with family, friends and loved ones - not fearing gun violence.” Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The Los Angeles Times first reported the driver of the white van had died.

A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio amid Lunar New Year celebrations and then probably tried — but failed — to target a second dance hall, ...

At least 71 drivers have gotten tickets so far for violating noise rules during a yearlong pilot program of the system. [Business](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business) ['PR job' or antidote to 'groupthink'? Public officials say this decision will be important as they urge Canadians to get boosters and to stay vigilant. Provincial police have said they believe Fritznel Richard, 44, likely died of hypothermia while trying to enter the United States. The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park's main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.” It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations. He likely tried and failed to target a second dance hall, authorities said. Police surrounded the van with tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks for hours before going in.

A gunman opened fire at a dance studio in Monterey Park, killing 10. Tens of thousands had gathered earlier nearby for a Lunar New Year festival.

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A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a search for ...

I’m sending my condolences to the families and friends of the victims, and I’m keeping the injured in my thoughts. "Monterey Park should have had a night of joyful celebration of the Lunar New Year. Instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence," California Gov. My heart breaks for the people of Monterey Park, California – whose Lunar New Year celebrations were violently attacked and whose lives have been forever changed. In fact, it was the Alhambra dance studio.Jan 22, 2023 1:03 PM ET since the start of the year but is also the deadliest since May 24, 2022 — when 21 people were The latest violence comes two months after five people were [killed at a Colorado Springs nightclub](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/colorado-nightclub-shooting-1.6657675). Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra. Wynn Liaw, 57, who lives about two blocks from the Monterey Park studio, said she was shocked that such a crime would happen, especially during New Year's celebrations. About two-thirds of the residents are Asian American. Officers heard a single gunshot from the van as they approached, then fell back and called for a SWAT team. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the man as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and said no other suspects were at large.

Law enforcement officials swarmed and entered a white van Sunday afternoon that officials suspect was driven by a gunman who opened fire on a Southern ...

At least 71 drivers have gotten tickets so far for violating noise rules during a yearlong pilot program of the system. [Business](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business) ['PR job' or antidote to 'groupthink'? Public officials say this decision will be important as they urge Canadians to get boosters and to stay vigilant. Provincial police have said they believe Fritznel Richard, 44, likely died of hypothermia while trying to enter the United States. The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park's main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.” It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over the celebrations. He likely tried and failed to target a second dance hall, authorities said. Police surrounded the van with tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks for hours before going in.

Jill and I are thinking of those killed and injured in last night's deadly mass shooting in Monterey Park. While there is still much we don't know about.

As we await more crucial information from law enforcement, I want to assure the community of Monterey Park and the broader area that we will support you in every way we can. Jill and I are thinking of those killed and injured in last night’s deadly mass shooting in Monterey Park. Monterey Park is home to one of the largest AA and NHPI communities in America, many of whom were celebrating the Lunar New Year along with loved ones and friends this weekend.

The Lunar New Year mass shooting in Monterey Park has residents mourning in their tight-knit suburb once dubbed the "Chinese Beverly Hills" as the ...

The movement also launched Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) to her election as a councilwoman and ultimately the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in 2009. A decade of condominium and apartment construction touched off by Hsieh erupted as an issue in the 1986 council election. That same year, while national media were characterizing Monterey Park as a middle-class melting pot, a group of residents led an effort to declare English the city’s official language. Chinese community leaders said it signaled a political coming of age. There were also “spacemen,” Chinese transnationals with their wives and children who stayed in Monterey Park while shuttling back and forth between China and the U.S., Zhou wrote. A counter swell brought several hundred Taiwan natives to a City Hall protest. Please pray for the victims and their families, pray for the city to recover and pray for all the residents in Monterey Park to be strong and be united!” But it’s also a city that has boarding houses, where older, first-generation Chinese Americans live on couches for $15 a night. The suburb less than 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles is one of the oldest cities demographically in L.A. “It is the 1st Asian ethnoburb: an ethnic enclave in the ‘burbs that thrives b/c it refuses to assimilate, instead unapologetically catering to its own immigrant community.” Yet it’s a city that now has two Asian American council members who have come out as gay — including a 35-year-old. ... We need to show the strength and decency of our community to each other.

At least 10 people were killed and a dozen more injured in a mass shooting Saturday night at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California.

“Monterey Park is home to one of the largest [#AAPI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/AAPI?src=hashtag_click) communities in the country. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/SashaReneePerez/status/1617103221142749185) Sunday. The Monterey Park mass shooting is also the nation’s deadliest since 21 people, including 19 children, were killed in A witness [told the Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting) that the suspect was firing indiscriminately with a long gun. [crime](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/crime/) or not. Police said the site of the shooting was a ballroom dance studio, and

Police officers stand guard near the scene of a deadly shooting on Sunday in Monterey Park, Calif. 10 people were killed and 10 more were injured at a dance ...

I'm monitoring this situation closely as it develops, and urge the community to follow guidance from local officials and law enforcement in the hours ahead," Biden said in a statement on Sunday. The holiday historically starts on the first full moon of the lunar year, but its start date and origins may vary across cultures. The wounded victims were rushed to local hospitals, in conditions ranging from stable to critical. The victims are in their 50s and above. A motive for the shooting is not known. The first day of the two-day festival had just ended. We need real gun reform at a national level. The event, which officials said drew more than 100,000 attendees, was canceled after the shooting. local time on Saturday, a gunman opened fire inside of Star Dance Studio, Chinese-owned ballroom dance studio on West Garvey Avenue, less than a block from where a Lunar New Year festival was held. Officials have not yet identified the victims. Authorities retreated and returned at about 12:52 p.m. A mass shooting over the weekend at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a city east of Los Angeles, killed 10 people and left 10 others injured.

Investigators scrambled on Monday to discover why a 72-year-old gunman opened fire in a California dance hall popular with older patrons and killed 10 ...

The suspected Monterey Park shooter had entered another dance studio in neighboring Alhambra, but fled the scene after his gun was wrested from him by two ...

Monterey Park is home to a large Asian-American community and the shooting took place near the location of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, where tens of thousands of people had gathered earlier that evening. [may have been illegal](https://www.dailynews.com/2023/01/22/suspect-in-monterey-park-massacre-may-have-had-illegal-semi-automatic-handgun/) to own under California’s gun laws that ban high-capacity magazines able to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1617376896832131072): “The strength of this community is incredible. The community’s first large celebration of the holiday in three years, due to take place Sunday, was cancelled. Police later located the suspect in the city of Torrance—located about 20 miles from Monterey Park—in a white van linked to the shooting. The assault pistol, with an extended large capacity magazine,

Surveillance footage captured the terrifying moment a heroic 26-year-old wrestled a gun away from accused mass shooter Huu Can Tran before he could embark ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Sunday identified the man as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and said no other suspects were at large. He allegedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his van. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. But people wrested the weapon away from him and witnesses said he fled in a white van, according to Luna. It was also the deadliest attack since 24 May, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. Members of a SWAT team looked through the van's contents before walking away. There, they found carnage inside and people trying to flee through all the doors. After surrounding the vehicle for hours, law enforcement officials swarmed and entered it. The heroic member of the public who bravely wrestled a gun away from the Monterey Park mass shooter as he attempted to carry out a second attack at another ballroom studio in California has been identified. The suspect accused of killing 10 people in a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California was found dead in a van from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as law enforcement closed in on him, authorities said. Huu Can Tran is accused of killing 10 and wounding 10 others in a mass shooting at a Monterey Park dance hall on the eve of the Lunar New Year

THE body of the man alleged to be the shooter in the killing of 10 people at a ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations near Los Angeles was ...

It was also the deadliest attack since May 24 last year, when 21 people were killed in a primary school in Uvalde, Texas. But people there wrested the weapon away from him and he fled, according to Sheriff Luna. Speaking at a news conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said that the motive for the attack remained unclear.

Investigators scrambled on Monday to discover why a 72-year-old gunman opened fire in a California dance hall popular with older patrons and killed 10 ...

The U.S. Elon Musk testified on Monday that he was sure he had backing from Saudi financiers in 2018 to take Tesla Inc. He denies the incident took place. An Arkansas man who propped his feet up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the U.S. One of the last members of the Vancouver Police Department to see Const. Dany Fortin 'did not engage in sexual misconduct' after the senior military officer was acquitted of sexual assault late last year. Tran is the second-oldest mass killer in the U.S. The development boasts of amenities including a 9-hole golf course, a shuffleboard court and a dance floor. Tran said he would return to the station with documentation but never did. Tran fatally shot himself Sunday as officers surrounded the van he was inside. The governor said hero can be an overused term that often loses its gravity, but he directed anyone doubting Tsay's courage to surveillance footage of him fighting with Tran. Gavin Newsom, who visited Tsay and his family on Monday, was among those hailing him as a hero.

The man who disarmed the Monterey Park mass shooter spoke to ABC News on "Good Morning America."

I hope they can find the courage and the strength to persevere." "In crises like this, the people need courage, especially the victims, their friends, their families," he added. Tsay said he then pointed the gun at the suspect and shouted: "Get the hell out of here! Tsay told ABC News that he has bruising all over his body from the incident, including across his nose and the back of his head. "I thought he would run away, but he was just standing there contemplating whether to fight or to run," Tsay recalled. He was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head."

Huu Can Tran, 72 ans, a déjà dansé régulièrement au studio Star Ballroom Dance où il a commis son crime, samedi soir.

Il était facilement irrité, se plaignait beaucoup et ne semblait pas faire confiance aux gens. Il résidait à San Gabriel. Il semble que Huu Can Tran était «hostile envers beaucoup de gens» au Star Ballroom. Il s’est présenté à elle et lui a offert des leçons gratuites. • À lire aussi: Huu Can Tran a tué 10 personnes – 5 hommes et 5 femmes – samedi soir en ouvrant le feu au Star Ballroom Dance Studio de Monterey Park en banlieue de Los Angeles.

Le suspect, d'origine asiatique et âgé de 72 ans, a été identifié comme étant Huu Can Tran après sa mort dimanche à Torrance, à environ 45 km de Monterey Park.

» « Nous entrons dans la nouvelle année lunaire avec le cœur brisé. Environ 49 000 personnes sont mortes par balle en 2021 aux États-Unis, contre 45 000 en 2020, déjà année record. Le couple s’était vite marié, mais l’union n’avait pas duré. « Et le mari pourrait être en colère et jaloux. Nous ne savons pas, mais nous avons l’intention de le découvrir.

Huu Can Tran, 72 ans, a déjà dansé régulièrement au studio Star Ballroom Dance où il a commis son crime, samedi soir.

Il semble que Huu Can Tran était hostile envers beaucoup de gens au Star Ballroom. Tran se plaignait souvent à l'époque, avançant que les professeurs de la salle de danse ne l'aimaient pas et disaient «de mauvaises choses à son sujet». Huu Can Tran a tué dix personnes – cinq hommes et cinq femmes – samedi soir, ouvrant le feu au studio Star Ballroom Dance de Monterey Park, en banlieue de Los Angeles. Il s’est présenté à elle et lui a offert des leçons gratuites. Il résidait à San Gabriel. Huu Can Tran a demandé le divorce à la fin de 2005.

Le tireur présumé de la fusillade de masse en Californie pendant le Nouvel An lunaire est mort, après s'être apparemment suicidé, a annoncé dimanche la police ...

Nous ne savons pas si c’est un crime motivé par la haine comme le définit la loi », a-t-il déclaré. Au moins dix autres personnes blessées ont été hospitalisées dans un état « stable à critique ». Le suspect, lui-même d’origine asiatique, a provoqué une vaste chasse à l’homme dans la région de Los Angeles. Des policiers se sont ensuite approchés avec de grandes précautions du véhicule et y ont pénétré. C’est la première fois que je la vois dans ma propre communauté. Luna, ajoutant que le motif de l’attaque survenue à Monterey Park, qui a fait 10 morts, n’était pas encore connu.