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    42 shell casings found from hail of bullets that killed 11 in Monterey Park shooting

    by Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, Alene Tchekmedyian, Hayley Smith, Summer Lin, Jeong Park and Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Jan 23, 2023 6 minutes
    After police tape was taken down, people line up to place flowers at the entrance to the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, where 11 people were killed and nine others were wounded.

    LOS ANGELES — The investigation into a mass shooting in Monterey Park is focused on the gunman’s prior interactions at two dance studios he targeted and whether jealousy over a relationship was the motive, law enforcement sources said.

    The sources stressed that the investigation is in its early stages. But detectives believe that 72-year-old Huu Can Tran had frequented the clubs — the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park and the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra — and that the shooting might have been sparked by a personal dispute.

    They also believe Tran was having unspecified emotional problems that had been getting worse in the weeks before the shooting.

    He showed up at the Hemet Police Department lobby twice this month, on Jan. 7 and 9, making allegations of fraud and theft and saying that his family had tried to poison him in the Los Angeles area 10 to 20 years ago, Hemet police spokesperson Alan Reyes said.

    Tran said he would come back with evidence but never returned, Reyes said.

    It will likely take weeks

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