Sheriff seeking what drove ‘mad man’ to shoot up dance hall
Associated PressMONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Investigators searching for a motive Monday in the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County history said the gunman 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. Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said investigators had not yet established why 72-year-old Huu Can Tran gunned down patrons Saturday night at a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, where tens of thousands attended Lunar New Year festivities earlier that evening. Sheriff’s deputies from Los Angeles County searched Tran’s home in a gated senior community in the town of Hemet, a little over an hour’s drive from the site of the massacre. kept distance from him, and according to what he said, many people spoke evil of him.” Tran eventually moved from the San Gabriel Valley, a melting pot for Asian immigrants, and settled in Hemet, a lower-income community of many retirees 75 miles east of Los Angeles in Riverside County. “He’d pet your dog when you walked by.” Hemet police had no records of any incidents involving Tran in the community or calls for service at his home, Reyes said.
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