Gunman Huu Can Tran didn’t know Monterey Park dance hall victims, sheriff says
the 72-year-old gunman who killed 11 people Saturday night inside a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, California, had no known relationship to the victims and a motive for the massacre during Lunar New Year celebrations was still unclear, investigators said Wednesday.told reporters that Tran had not been to the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the past five years and didn’t appear to specifically target the victims.
Tran took time to reload as he sprayed at least 42 bullets on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the dance hall, killing 11 people and wounding nine, the sheriff said, adding that Tran had used a variant of the MAC-10 semiautomatic machine pistol with a 30-round magazine. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said on Wednesday that Tran had used a variant of the MAC-10 semiautomatic machine pistol with a 30-round magazine to kill 11 people and wound 9 others at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, last week.have been identified as Valentino Alvero, 68, Hong Jian, 62, Yu Kao, 72, Lilian Li, 63, Ming Wei Ma, 72, My Nhan, 65, Diana Tom, 72, Muoi Ung, 67, Chia Yau, 76, Wen Yu, 64, and Xiujuan Yu, 57.
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