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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. – Stunning surveillance video has emerged showing the heroic efforts of a creation hallway idiosyncratic who disarmed the Monterey Park slayer successful the adjacent metropolis of Alhambra astir 20 minutes aft his rampage.
The decease toll has risen to 11 successful the Saturday nighttime onslaught astatine the Star Ballroom Dance Studio. About 20 minutes aft the archetypal attack, the slayer strode into the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio successful Alhambra, equipped with a magazine-fed, semiautomatic battle pistol
Video obtained by CNN shows the slayer entering a tiny country astatine the Lai Lai. Brandon Tsay, 26, whose household runs the creation hall, is past seen walking toward the gunman, arms outstretched, and moves rapidly toward the killer, pushing him retired the doorway and into a lobby area.
“I’m going to die. This is it. This is the extremity for me,” Tsay recalled reasoning erstwhile helium archetypal saw the gunman. “But past thing happened. Something came implicit me.”
Video from a camera successful the country the men past participate shows Tsay ripping the weapon from the gunman's hands. That video, obtained by NBC News, shows the gunman continuing to wrestle Tsay, punching him and grabbing a h2o vessel and hitting Tsay with it.
“I threatened him that I would shoot,” Tsay told CNN. “I thought I would person to termination him, that I would person to sprout a person.”
But the slayer walked retired the door. He was recovered dormant of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the adjacent day.
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Vice President Harris to sojourn California successful aftermath of wide killings
Vice President Kamala Harris volition sojourn California successful the aftermath of 2 wide killings successful 3 days that near 18 radical dormant and renewed the president’s propulsion for weapon control.
"Our hearts are with the radical of California," President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
Seven radical died Tuesday successful 2 shootings near the Northern California assemblage of Half Moon Bay, conscionable days aft a rampage successful Southern California killed 11.
Biden said he’s spoken to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and section leaders and pledged the national government’s support.
His remarks came earlier gathering with Democratic legislature leaders astatine the White House, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
The president pointed to caller authorities introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, to prohibition battle weapons, urging them to “send that to my table arsenic rapidly arsenic you can.” The measure faces a pugnacious ascent successful the Senate and is not expected to walk successful the Republican-led House.
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Police gully scrutiny for taking 5 hours to alert nationalist of threat
Authorities were pressed to explicate wherefore it took 5 hours aft Saturday's carnage to alert the nationalist that the slayer was connected the loose. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday that his section was “strategic” successful its determination to merchandise accusation but that helium would reappraisal what happened. The shooting took spot precocious Saturday night, and the section reported respective hours aboriginal that the chartless assailant was astatine large.
At 2:49 a.m., much than 4 hours aft the archetypal 911 calls, the Sheriff’s Information Bureau issued a quality advisory confirming fatalities and that the fishy was male, but determination was nary notation of the presumption of the investigation. Shortly aft 3:30 a.m., much than 5 hours aft the shooting, Capt. Andrew Meyer held a briefing and said the decease toll was 10 and that “the fishy fled the country and remains outstanding.”
Luna defends accusation timeline
“When we started putting retired nationalist information, the precedence was to get this idiosyncratic into custody,” Luna said. “Ultimately it worked. We volition spell backmost and look astatine it arsenic we ever do. Nobody is arsenic captious arsenic ourselves arsenic to what worked and specifically what didn’t work."
Brian Higgins, an adjunct prof astatine New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a erstwhile constabulary main successful Bergen County, New Jersey, told The Associated Press that an alert should person gone retired close away.
“What took truthful long?” Higgins said. “Maybe they didn’t person a bully grip connected what they had. But if they didn’t know, they should person erred connected the broadside of caution and enactment this out.”
MONTEREY PARK REELS: City that is a safe haven for Asian communities is shattered by wide shooting
Shock, alleviation 2 days aft tragedy
Thomas Wong, a longtime Monterey Park assembly member, said he is navigating bouts of daze and relief. The shock comes from knowing that his hometown suffered the worst wide shooting in the U.S. since a deadly schoolhouse onslaught successful Uvalde, Texas, successful May. The alleviation comes from knowing the suspected slayer successful Monterey Park tin nary longer wounded anyone.
"We spot (mass shootings) proliferate successful different parts of the country, but you ne'er expect it to hap successful your ain backyard," Wong said Monday successful between consoling fellow residents. "To commencement disconnected the twelvemonth similar this is an unimaginable tragedy." Read much here.
– Terry Collins, Tami Abdollah and Alia Wong
Wounded diligent dies 2 days aft shooting
One of the four radical being treated astatine the LA County-USC Medical Center died Monday of gunshot wounds, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services said Monday. A section quality merchandise said different of the wounded patients was successful superior information and the different two were recovering.
Authorities said the archetypal decease number from Saturday night's onslaught astatine a creation workplace was 10, and astatine slightest 10 were injured. The assemblage of the shooter was aboriginal recovered successful a van parked astir 30 miles distant successful Torrance.
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All 11 Monterey Park victims identified
After notifying relatives, the authorities released Tuesday the implicit database of the 11 radical killed successful the creation hallway shooting, who ranged successful property from 57 to 76.
The six women who perished were: My Nhan, 65; Lilian Li, 63; Xiujuan Yu, 57; Muoi Ung, 67; Hong Jian, 62; and Diana Tom, 70.
The 5 men were: Yu-Lun Kao, 72; Chia Yau, 76; Valentino Alvero, 68; Wen-Tau Yu, 64; and Ming Ma, 72.
Luna said the gunman fired 42 shots at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, which is fashionable with older Asian Americans. In summation to those killed, 9 were wounded. After leaving the carnage, the slayer drove to the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio successful adjacent Alhambra, wherever a apt onslaught was thwarted by a worker, Luna said.
How to help
People who privation to assistance survivors of the shooting and families of the victims tin donate connected the verified Go Fund Me page. Donations can beryllium made to the general victims fund, which by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday had received astir $500,000 of a extremity of $750,000, oregon done idiosyncratic unfortunate pages connected the site.
Timeline from archetypal 911 telephone to find of killer's body
At 10:22 p.m. section clip Saturday, constabulary received 911 calls astir an progressive shooter astatine the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Garvey Street, the main drag in Monterey Park Police arrived wrong 3 minutes and recovered chaos arsenic patrons fled the studio. They discovered dormant and wounded radical inside.
At 12:52 p.m. Sunday, the region sheriff's SWAT squad cleared the van. They recovered "the fishy sustained a self-inflicted gunshot coiled and was pronounced dormant astatine the scene,'' Luna said.
A timeline from the archetypal telephone to that announcement is here.
Authorities hunt for a motive
Authorities continued searching for clues astir gunman Huu Can Tran's motive, which remained unclear. “We each privation answers to questions that we whitethorn ne'er person answers to,” Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese said. “That’s benignant of the enigma of this.''
Luna acknowledged reports that Tran acted retired of jealousy but said helium could not corroborate them. Tran is believed to person offered creation lessons and met his present ex-wife astatine the Star studio. Luna said a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and instrumentality to manufacture homemade silencers were recovered astatine Tran's home.
Contributing: Orlando Mayorquin and Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
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