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Joe Biden remembers victims of Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay shootings one year after massacres, calls for gun control

One year after the tragic Monterey Park shooting, president Joe Biden has paid tribute to the people who lost their lives. He also remembered those who died two days later when a gunman opened fire in Half Moon Bay, killing seven people. Just two days later, a shooter murderedseven people at two landscaping nurseries in Half Moon Bay in San …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How U.S. mass shootings could hurt 2026 World Cup bottom line

LA Times

The World Cup is coming to the U.S. in a little more than three years. Meanwhile, crime-ridden Venezuela — not a friend — has recommended its citizens avoid travel to the U.S. because of the “proliferation of acts of violence and indiscriminate hate crimes.” Even Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog best known for standing up to despots and criminal …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Police seek motive as Nashville school shooting captures the attention of a divided nation

LA Times

The shooter, who was killed by police, was initially described as a 28-year-old woman. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said police were examining whether the shooter’s transgender identity was part of the motive for the shooting. Drake said police believed the shooter might have harbored some “resentment” for “having to go to that school,” but he did not elaborate. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Biden issues new order in effort to curb US gun violence

Al Jazeera

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to expand the use of background checks for firearm purchases as the United States grapples with persistent and devastating mass shootings. “This executive order helps keeps firearms out of dangerous hands as I continue to call on Congress to require background checks for all firearms sales.” The executive order aims to expand …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Biden to spotlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet U.K., Australia leaders in San Diego

LA Times

President Biden will travel to California on Monday for a multiday visit that will include a stop in Monterey Park, the site of one of three mass shootings that rocked the state in January. Tsay met with Biden last month after traveling to Washington for the State of the Union address, during which the president referred to him as a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LA Times

People in Oakland gather Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the shooting victims in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland. California Honoring the lives lost in the Monterey Park mass shooting On Jan. 21, the Monterey Park community was shattered when the Star Ballroom Dance Studio became the site of one of California’s worst mass shootings in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday honored 18 people killed in two California mass shootings, saying “we have to be there” with the communities that have been forever scarred by gun violence. “Our prayers are with the people of Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, and after yet another spree of gun violence in America,” he said at a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A look at California’s deadly back-to-back mass shootings

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — In the course of 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded. Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a large Lunar New Year celebration, a gunman stormed the Star Dance Ballroom and shot 20 people, killing 11. The semiautomatic handgun Tran used to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

Associated Press

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot — 11 fatally — at a ballroom dance hall defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying Wednesday he didn’t have enough information to effectively alert residents. Monterey Park Chief Scott Wiese said police …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘What drove a madman to do this?’ Domestic violence probed in Monterey Park shooting

LA Times

A grieving woman is comforted as she reads the names of 11 people killed in a mass shooting written on crosses and displayed during a candlelight vigil in front of city hall in Monterey Park on Tuesday. “In my mind, domestic violence is just the gateway to everything,” said Orchid Pusey, executive director of the Asian Women’s Shelter in San …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Half Moon Bay suspect ‘snapped’ before shooting co-workers, sheriff says

LA Times

FBI officials arrive at Mountain Mushroom Farm in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday, a day after a gunman killed seven people there and at a nearby agricultural business. “All the evidence we have points to this being instance of workplace violence.” Corpus added in an interview with The Times: “There was something that happened where he snapped.” The suspected gunman …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Two mass shootings in three days. Are these copycat crimes?

LA Times

A San Mateo County Sheriff’s truck drives into the scene of a mass shooting near Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Monday — about 40 hours after another mass shooting in Monterey Park. “We don’t see many 60- and 70-year-olds committing mass homicides, and when they do it’s usually a murder-suicide within a family,” said Jack McDevitt, a criminologist at Northeastern …

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1 year, 10 months ago

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

LA Times

Mourners take part in a vigil for victims of a mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Paul Hoang, a licensed clinical social worker, said he felt “deep sorrow” at the news that all three shooting suspects were older Asian American men. “Many of the services that are available right now are not culturally sensitive to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

California already has nation’s strictest gun laws. Mass shootings could spur push to go further

LA Times

Law enforcement officials on Sunday secure and investigate the scene where a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park. After a deadly wave of mass shootings in the United States last year — including one in Buffalo, N.Y., and another at a school in Uvalde, Texas — that collectively killed 31, California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature responded by …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Newsom calls out Fox News — as his meeting with shooting victims is interrupted by another massacre

Raw Story

Gavin Newsom on Monday was pulled away to be briefed on the state's second mass killing in three days while meeting with victims of the first one. Newsom while meeting with victims of the Monterey Park shooting called out Fox News, accusing the right-wing network of "not doing a damn thing about gun safety, not a damn thing for decades." …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Seven dead in new California shooting as police probe dance hall killings

Deccan Chronicle

HALF MOON BAY, United States: An Asian farm worker was in custody Monday after seven of his colleagues were killed in front of children at sites in California, days after a mass shooter killed 11 people at a Lunar New Year celebration near Los Angeles. San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said seven people were killed and one injured in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Column: In Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay, the pain of hearing it’s ‘one of our own’

LA Times

Mourners take part in a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at the Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park. And yet, even when Black people are killed in acts of hate — like when an 18-year-old white supremacist drove 200 miles to shoot Black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., last year — it doesn’t take long …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Seven killed in two shootings in Half Moon Bay, California

Al Jazeera

Latest mass shooting comes less than 48 hours after 11 people killed at a Lunar New Year celebration near Los Angeles. San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine said on Monday that four people were killed at a mushroom farm and three at a trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 48km south …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Column: I covered the California McDonald’s massacre in 1984. Why does gun violence just get worse?

LA Times

A woman pays her respects at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Those are decades in which the nation’s gun laws have generally grown more permissive, weapons more readily available and lawmakers in Washington notably less responsive to the majority of Americans who favor stricter safety …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Kamala Harris to travel to Monterey Park in wake of mass shooting

LA Times

A woman who identified herself as Shally, and said her dance partner died in Saturday’s shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, pays her respects at a makeshift memorial outside the dance hall on Tuesday. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Monterey Park on Wednesday to honor the victims of one of the three mass shootings that …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Gun used in Monterey Park massacre an assault weapon under state law, known to jam

LA Times

A criminal justice professor says the MAC-10 firearm has rarely been used in mass shootings, which are defined as those in which at least four people die. As familiar as mass shootings have become, the gunman’s choice of weapon in the attack Saturday night that left 11 people dead and nine injured in Monterey Park stands out. James Densley, a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Half Moon Bay suspect lived at mushroom farm where shootings occurred

LA Times

The shooting rampage Monday in Half Moon Bay that left seven people dead appears to be a case of workplace violence, law enforcement officials said. “The only known connection between the victims and the suspect is that they may have been co-workers,” San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a news conference Tuesday. Why have we allowed this culture, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Opinion: The incomprehensible tragedy of Monterey Park

CNN

Editor’s Note: Jeff Yang is a research director for the Institute for the Future and the head of its Digital Intelligence Lab. Instead, Asian Americans woke up Sunday to the horrific news of yet another mass shooting the day before affecting our community — this one taking place at a ballroom dance studio in the suburban immigrant enclave of Monterey …

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Joe Biden remembers victims of Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay shootings one year after massacres, calls for gun control

How U.S. mass shootings could hurt 2026 World Cup bottom line

Police seek motive as Nashville school shooting captures the attention of a divided nation

Biden issues new order in effort to curb US gun violence

Biden to spotlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet U.K., Australia leaders in San Diego

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

A look at California’s deadly back-to-back mass shootings

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

‘What drove a madman to do this?’ Domestic violence probed in Monterey Park shooting

Half Moon Bay suspect ‘snapped’ before shooting co-workers, sheriff says

Two mass shootings in three days. Are these copycat crimes?

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

California already has nation’s strictest gun laws. Mass shootings could spur push to go further

Newsom calls out Fox News — as his meeting with shooting victims is interrupted by another massacre

Seven dead in new California shooting as police probe dance hall killings

Column: In Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay, the pain of hearing it’s ‘one of our own’

Seven killed in two shootings in Half Moon Bay, California

Column: I covered the California McDonald’s massacre in 1984. Why does gun violence just get worse?

Kamala Harris to travel to Monterey Park in wake of mass shooting

Gun used in Monterey Park massacre an assault weapon under state law, known to jam

Half Moon Bay suspect lived at mushroom farm where shootings occurred

Opinion: The incomprehensible tragedy of Monterey Park