Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old man of Asian origin, opened fire on Saturday night in the middle of a Lunar New Year celebration in a dance hall in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles, a city populated mainly by people of ethnic origin. Asian. .
He killed at least 10 people and injured 10 others, then as he fled, police chased him for several hours. He was eventually found dead at the wheel of a vehicle. A tragedy that could have been worse if a hero (perhaps two) had not intervened.
“His eyes were menacing”
To understand, we must first return to tonight’s course. At around 10:10 pm on Saturday (7:10 am on Sunday, France time), Huu Can Tran entered the popular Star Ballroom Dance Studio in downtown Monterey Park. There, he will kill 10 people.
About 30 minutes after her first attack, she went to another dance hall in Alhambra, a nearby town. He wants to make more victims but they prevent him, according to the New York Timesby Brandon Tsey.
The 26-year-old computer coder, who regularly works the ticket booth at this ballroom, allegedly disarmed the killer before he could shoot anyone.
Brandon Tsay first came face to face with Huu Can Tran, gun pointed at him. “He looked at me and looked around him, not hiding that he was trying to hurt. His eyes were menacing,” he told reporters the day after the tragedy.
“By his body language, his facial expression, his eyes, he was looking for people,” added Brandon Tsay.
“My heart sank, I knew I was going to die,” he said to himself first. Then the computer specialist tries everything for everything, rushes at Huu Can Tran and takes the gun by the barrel. They argue for about a minute and a half to get control of the gun, before Brandon Tsay manages to snatch it from her.
“That moment was primal instinct, he said. Something happened there. I don’t know what happened to me.”
“Go ahead, get the hell out of here,” he recalls telling Huu Can Tran, pointing the gun at him.
He then stayed up all night to help investigators. According to CNN, Brandon Tsay’s action also led authorities directly to the suspect. In fact, having stolen the shooter’s weapon, a Cobray M11mm semi-automatic designed for 30-round magazines, he allowed police to trace the shooter’s name and description.
One or two heroes?
However, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna’s version differs slightly from Brandon Tsay’s. According to him, the murderer was “disarmed by two members of the community who[il] consider them heroes because they have saved lives.”
For Americans, the enigma to solve in priority continues to be Huu Can Tran. “All avenues are being considered,” Sheriff Robert Luna said Sunday. In particular, investigators have yet to determine why the victims, five women and five men in their 50s and 60s, were targeted.
US President Joe Biden has ordered flags adorning public buildings to be lowered at half mast until the evening of January 2. It is the deadliest shooting in the country since a gunman killed 21 people in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Source: BFM TV
