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    After dance hall shooting, pastor tried to de-stigmatize therapy for Asian immigrants

    by Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times Dec 21, 2023 5 minutes
    Eric Chen, shown inside Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, is a pastor and speech and debate coach at Gabrielino High School.

    LOS ANGELES -- Eric Chen never met Yu Lun Kao. But in February, he helped bury the 72-year-old ballroom dancer known to his friends as "Mr. Nice."

    Kao, who went by Andy, was shielding his longtime dance partner from the hail of bullets when he was killed during the shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. He'd been a fixture in the dance community since immigrating from Taiwan two decades ago.

    Chen is a Taiwanese pastor in San Gabriel. His mother worked for Kao's older brother and sister-in-law in the 1990s, which made the Jan. 21 Monterey Park massacre "not just news you read about."

    "It felt surreal that a tragedy like this would affect a family that I've known for 30 years," Chen told The Times. "That's where the tragedy hits even closer

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