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Gunman still on the loose after ten killed in mass shooting in Monterey Park dance studio

Posted by cfabbro
Tags: usa.ca.monterey park, crime, shootings.mass, deaths, violence.gun, new years.lunar, source.los angeles times, paywall
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting

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Title
Police respond to reports of multiple people shot in Monterey Park
Published
Jan 22 2023
Word count
151 words

11 comments

  1. [11]
    cfabbro
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    Update:

    Update:

    Police have located a white van they believe is connected to the gunman who opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others.

    Multiple police cars surrounded the vehicle in Torrance on Sunday morning and shots were fired, law enforcement sources told The Times. It was not known who was in the vehicle or whether there were any injuries.

    2 votes
    1. [10]
      cfabbro
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      Headline change, new photo, and another small update: ABC7 Live feed of the standoff and ongoing press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX165mJ1KAA

      Headline change, new photo, and another small update:

      Standoff in Torrance as police find van linked to gunman in Lunar New Year mass shootings

      The suspect in a mass shooting in Monterey Park appears slumped over in a van as police investigate.

      ABC7 Live feed of the standoff and ongoing press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX165mJ1KAA

      3 votes
      1. [5]
        cfabbro
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        Article updated again:

        Article updated again:

        Driver found dead after authorities breach van linked to Lunar New Year mass shooting

        Just before 1 p.m. Sunday, a SWAT team swarmed the vehicle and smashed its windows in the parking lot of Tokyo Central, a Japanese grocery store near the southwest corner of Hawthorne and Sepulveda boulevards.

        At least two bullet holes had been visible in the driver’s-side window in the moments prior to their approach, and the driver appeared to be slumped over the steering wheel. Multiple law enforcement sources told The Times that the driver had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

        L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna did not immediately confirm whether the individual in the van was the suspected shooter.

        “Could it be our suspect? Possibly,” Luna said. “But at this point, if we’re doing our jobs correctly, we’re not only looking at that situation or scenario, but we’re making sure that we’re looking at any and every possibility.”

        4 votes
        1. [4]
          cfabbro
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          Updated again: Sounds like it might be similar to the recent mass shooting here in Ontario; Caused by paranoid delusions and untreated mental illness. :(

          Updated again:

          Authorities have identified the man responsible for a deadly shooting inside a Monterey Park dance studio as Hemet resident Huu Can Tran, 72.

          Tran died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a strip mall parking lot near Sepulveda and Hawthorne boulevards in Torrance, law enforcement sources said.

          “We still are not clear on the motive,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said.

          Two law enforcement sources said the suspect recently showed up to the Hemet police station saying his family was trying to poison him.

          Sounds like it might be similar to the recent mass shooting here in Ontario; Caused by paranoid delusions and untreated mental illness. :(

          2 votes
          1. [3]
            lou
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            You'd be surprised how little damage the mentally ill can do when they have no access to firearms...

            You'd be surprised how little damage the mentally ill can do when they have no access to firearms...

            2 votes
            1. [2]
              cfabbro
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              Eh... we have had a number of pretty horrific knife attacks by mentally ill people here in Canada. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean But I agree that easy access to guns is...

              Eh... we have had a number of pretty horrific knife attacks by mentally ill people here in Canada. E.g.
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

              But I agree that easy access to guns is a major factor when it comes to the frequency of mass shootings, and how much harm one person can do. And mass shooting are thankfully fairly rare up here in Canada due to our much much much stricter gun control laws than those in the US. But unfortunately due to our proximity to the US we still get a lot of illegally smuggled firearms getting sold and used to commit crimes up here, like the pistol used by the shooter in the story I mentioned in the previous comment.

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              1. lou
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                Yeah... I don't like to localize myself online, but let me just say that events of that sort are almost historical where I come from. And we got a bunch of untreated batshit crazy people on the...

                Yeah... I don't like to localize myself online, but let me just say that events of that sort are almost historical where I come from. And we got a bunch of untreated batshit crazy people on the streets (inside as well). No guns though.

                1 vote
      2. [4]
        lou
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        Maybe there could be a better way to deal with articles that change a lot after posting. Something like a change log like already exists for changes to the post itself.

        Maybe there could be a better way to deal with articles that change a lot after posting. Something like a change log like already exists for changes to the post itself.

        1. [3]
          cfabbro
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          What's wrong with just using comments?

          What's wrong with just using comments?

          3 votes
          1. [2]
            lou
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            I don't know. Maybe nothing? :P

            I don't know. Maybe nothing? :P

            1. cfabbro
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              Comments do most of the things I think an article update changelog like that would, but they also bump the topic so people can be informed of the update. So there is probably not a whole lot of...

              Comments do most of the things I think an article update changelog like that would, but they also bump the topic so people can be informed of the update. So there is probably not a whole lot of reason to invent a totally new system for such a thing, IMO.

              2 votes