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    Monterey Park shooter’s motives remain a mystery; cops can’t connect him to victims

    LOS ANGELES — In the days since 72-year-old Huu Can Tran opened fire at a Monterey Park dance studio, fragments of his life and possible motives for the attack have slowly emerged. He at one time frequented the ballroom dance scene but appeared to have personal grievances against some in that world. He lived a somewhat isolated life. A law enforcement source confirmed to the Los Angeles Times ...
    by Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, James Rainey and Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times Jan 26, 2023 5 minutes
    Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna speaks Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, at a news conference at the Hall of Justice about the Monterey Park mass shooting.

    LOS ANGELES — In the days since 72-year-old Huu Can Tran opened fire at a Monterey Park dance studio, fragments of his life and possible motives for the attack have slowly emerged.

    He at one time frequented the ballroom dance scene but appeared to have personal grievances against some in that world. He lived a somewhat isolated life. A law enforcement source confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that Tran was a gun enthusiast who purchased the semi-automatic MAC-10 assault weapon used in the attack in 1999.

    But a clear sense of why he killed 11 people in Monterey Park before launching another attack at a dance hall in Alhambra that was thwarted remains a mystery.

    And that mystery only seemed to grow Wednesday night with a hastily called news conference by L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna, who said no one has yet recalled

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