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“Quiet Little Fellow, Would Pet Your Dog”: Shock After California Shooting


'The quiet little friend who will pet your dog': Shock after the California shooting

Tran Huu Can was once a regular guest at the California dance club, the site of America’s latest mass shooting.

Monterey Park, USA:

The 72-year-old Asian immigrant man killed 11 people before shooting himself when police raided and arrested a former patron at the California dance club, the site of the latest mass shooting in the US.

Tran Huu Can used a semi-automatic pistol to spray bullets around the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, an Asian-majority city near Los Angeles.

Twenty minutes later, he was overpowered by a young worker at another dance club and disarmed before fleeing.

As the small city tries to cope with the tragedy that occurred as many in the Asian community were celebrating the Lunar New Year, images of the suspect began to emerge.

Tran, whose name is usually Vietnamese, immigrated to the United States from China, according to a marriage certificate that his ex-wife showed CNN.

The unnamed woman told the network that she met Tran two decades ago at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, which he frequented.

The studio, whose website says it was founded in 1990, offers classes in all forms of dance, from children’s ballet to Latin steps to belly dancing.

Tran’s ex-wife says he introduced himself to her at the club, offering her free, intimate lessons.

The couple married a short time later, but the marriage did not last.

She said that Tran, who sometimes works as a truck driver, is not violent, but can be impatient, especially if he feels he has been unmasked, such as when she does an upside down jump. messy.

Court records cited by CNN show the couple divorced in 2006.

A man who said he knew Tran well in the late 2000s and early 2010s told the broadcaster that he was a patron of the dance studio at the time.

The friend described how Tran drove from his home in San Gabriel, a city three miles (five kilometers) from Monterey Park almost every night.

But Tran will complain about dance teachers, who he claims will say “bad things about him,” the man told CNN, describing Tran as “hostile to a lot of people at there.”

– ‘Something this terrible’-

He sold his house in San Gabriel in 2013.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Tran lived in a mobile home in Hemet, a city of 90,000 about 85 miles east of Los Angeles.

Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department searched his residence there in the Lakes at Hemet West mobile home park, which describes itself as “the 55+ active community.”

A neighbor there said the community was shocked.

“He’ll stop to pet your dog, and everyone around here thinks he’s just a quiet guy,” Pat Roth told KTLA broadcaster.

“Everyone I spoke to was shocked to learn he was involved in this.”

Police in Hemet said they contacted Tran this month.

“Tran entered the lobby of the Hemet Police Department on January 7 and 9, 2023, alleging past charges of fraud, theft, and poisoning involving his family in the Los Angeles area from 10 to 20 years ago,” said Hemet PD.

“Tran said he would return to the station with documents related to his allegations but never returned.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that investigators are focusing on Tran’s previous interactions at two dance studios and are looking into whether jealousy in a relationship was the motive.

Tran fatally shot himself Sunday when police officers approached the white van he was driving.

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said investigators are probing Tran’s mental health and criminal history.

“The investigation continues,” he told reporters. “We wanted to know how something this terrible could happen.”

(Except for the title, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from an aggregated feed.)

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