California shooting suspect Huu Can Tran dead after Lunar New Year massacre at dance club
- The suspect in a ballroom dance club shooting near Los Angeles that left 10 dead shot and killed himself
- Los Angeles authorities identified the suspect as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and had yet to determine his motive
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Shooting massacre in the US turns Lunar New Year celebration into tragedy in California
Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration before fleeing the scene and later killing himself.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the suspect as Huu Can Tran, 72, who wielded a pistol with a high-capacity magazine.
“We want to know, we want to know how something this awful can happen,” Luna told reporters on Sunday.
Luna said Tran turned a handgun on himself on Sunday morning as police approached a white van he was driving in Torrance, about 34km (20 miles) from the site of the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park.
Five of the victims were male and five were female, Luna said. Their identities have not been made public. Another 10 people were shot, and seven of them remain hospitalised, with at least one person in critical condition, authorities said.
The sheriff’s department released images of the suspect apparently taken from surveillance camera footage showing him wearing spectacles, dressed in a dark jacket and a dark beanie hat with white stripe.