Mass shooting on the Lunar New Year: what is known about the suspected shooter Huu Kang Chan

Authorities believe Huu Kang Tran, 72, was the man who killed 10 people and injured 10 people at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California on Saturday night.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Tran was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after his body was found in a white van. They also seized a pistol from the car.

He also said that 20 to 30 minutes after the Star Ballroom dance studio shooting in Monterey Park late Saturday night, which killed five women and five men and injured 10 others, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai ballroom. in the nearby Alhambra. . Police believe the two events are connected.

Luna said that a “suspected Asian male” entered the Alhambra club with a “firearm” and that people snatched the gun from him before he fled. Investigators are interested in a white cargo van seen in the area, and the police have a pistol from the Alhambra.

By noon, police surrounded a white van in a Torrance, California parking lot about 30 miles from the Monterey Park mass shooting. Luna described it as a barricaded situation in which “maybe” a suspect could find himself.

FOX 11 reports that a man’s body was found in the driver’s seat of a white van.

The Sheriff’s Department released photos of the suspected attacker. He was described as an Asian male in his 30s and 50s, 5’10”, weighing 150 pounds, and was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, hat, and glasses.

Authorities are also still working to determine the motive for the shooting – it may have been a hate crime or domestic violence.

The gunman opened fire around 10:30 p.m. local time during a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, which is one of the largest in California and drew tens of thousands of people during the day on Saturday.

Authorities said 10 people were hospitalized for various conditions.

The victims have not yet been identified.

This story was reported from Los Angeles.