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    Year of grief and healing: Monterey Park shooting survivors, victims' families reflect on trauma

    by Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times Jan 21, 2024 5 minutes
    Shally, whose dance partner died in the Monterey Park shooting and who witnessed the shooting herself, pays her respects at a makeshift memorial for victims of the mass shooting outside Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Jan. 24, 2023, in Monterey Park, California.

    Nearly a year after Ronald Tom's wife was killed in the Monterey Park mass shooting, he and his family visited the local fire station, bearing steamed Chinese buns, to thank the first responders who tended to Diana Tom on that fateful night.

    They couldn't save her life but they kept her alive long enough to let her family say their last goodbyes.

    "She had a 24-hour window that you gave her because you were there in time that she could be brought to the hospital," Ronald Tom told the group of nearly a dozen firefighters and paramedics. "Four or five of us got to visit her and God bless, she accepted the Lord in her final moments. That was really special."

    Nearly a year after the shooting at a popular dance hall during a Lunar New Year

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