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Commentary: How do we help Monterey Park shooting survivors now left with horrific trauma?

I was 10 minutes from the Monterey Park shooting on Lunar New Year’s Eve, eating dim sum with 12 of my closest family members and friends, most Chinese. Monterey Park is where we have usually celebrated since my family and I moved to the U.S. from Asia, and the San…

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Daughter of slain Monterey Park dance hall manager plans to carry on his legacy

LOS ANGELES — Mary Ma holds three lit incense sticks in front of the almost life-size photo of her father displayed outside Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park.

Los Angeles Times

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LOS ANGELES — The news of the mass shooting in Monterey Park broke early last Sunday morning and crashed into the expectations of a new day. Details were slow to develop — a gunman still at large — but soon enough the scope of the tragedy was laid bare.

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Commentary: Our children can handle mass shootings. And that’s a shame

For anyone worried about how children handle mass shootings like the one in Monterey Park, I have an answer: Probably better than American children of any previous generation.

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Alhambra prepares for Lunar New Year Festival and 'healing' after mass shooting

LOS ANGELES — Alhambra officials hope to "start the healing" by moving forward with the city's annual Lunar New Year Festival on Sunday, a week after the event was canceled following a mass shooting in neighboring Monterey Park that left 11 dead.

Los Angeles Times

Ballroom comforts for Chinese Americans

The importance of ballroom culture to many senior Asian Americans brings the Monterey Park tragedy into focus

Salon

First Lady MOCKS Joe Biden and blocks questions over classified docs at White House event

First Lady picks on Joe Biden 'ruining the evening' at Lunar New Year celebration

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Dancing again at studio targeted by Monterey Park gunman: ‘Don’t be afraid. Don’t be intimidated’

ALHAMBRA, Calif. — Lucy Wong was not sure at first whether it was safe to go back to Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra.

Los Angeles Times

Joe Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

Eleven people were killed at a Southern California ballroom dance hall late Saturday and seven others died Monday at two mushroom farms in the northern part of the state.

Irish Mirror

Red envelopes and tragedy: A Monterey Park restaurant owner moves forward the only way she knows how

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — It was quiet in the parking lot of the Cantonese restaurant. By then, the news helicopters had left Monterey Park airspace.

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Monterey Park gunman pestered women and BANNED from dance studio before massacre

Huu Can Tran, 72, fired 42 rounds in the Star Ballroom Studio on Saturday night in California, US, killing 11 and injuring 9 during the Lunar New Year celebrations

Daily Mirror

Commentary: Older mass shooters are rare. Here’s how they differ from young assailants

The killing of 18 people in California just two days apart — 11 in Monterey Park and seven in Half Moon Bay — are the latest horrors in America’s long history of gun violence. But there is a factor in these mass shootings, and with the suspects, that stands out.

Los Angeles Times

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

In less than 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded

The Independent UK

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

President Joe Biden says the nation's prayers are with two California cities where 18 people were killed in separate shootings over the last week

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Monterey Park shooter’s motives remain a mystery; cops can’t connect him to victims

LOS ANGELES — In the days since 72-year-old Huu Can Tran opened fire at a Monterey Park dance studio, fragments of his life and possible motives for the attack have slowly emerged.

The Independent UK

Monterey Park shooting suspect had ‘no connection’ to 11 victims and hadn’t been to dance hall in 5 years

Authorities say the 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with the victims and investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the massacre

Los Angeles Times

‘What drove a madman to do this?’ Domestic violence probed in Monterey Park shooting

Hours before Monterey Park shooter Huu Can Tran was found slumped over the steering wheel of his white cargo van, before his name was released or his victims identified, rumors swirled about his motive.

Irish Mirror

Gunman didn't know Monterey Park dance hall victims, sheriff confirms

Huu Can Tran, 72, killed 11 people and injured nine others during Lunar New Year celebrations

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The Independent UK

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

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Monterey Park, an Asian cultural hub, shaken by shooting

For decades, Monterey Park has been a haven for Asian immigrants seeking to maintain a strong cultural identity — and a culinary heaven for anybody near Los Angeles craving authentic Asian cuisine

The Guardian - US

Doting aunt, dance-loving mother, ‘Mr Nice’: community mourns Monterey Park shooting victims

Family accounts tell an interwoven story about the hope of starting afresh in a new country and shared joy

Tribune News Service

Cities forge on to protect Lunar New Year celebrations after shootings

City leaders and Asian-American communities are mobilizing to protect Lunar New Year celebrations across the country after two separate mass shootings in California.

The Independent UK

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot at a ballroom dance hall, 11 fatally, has defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose

WEKU

Here's what we know about the Monterey Park shooting victims

The families of the 11 people who died in the attack at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio are sharing memories of their loved ones.

Reason

No Matter the 'Details on These Shootings,' Biden Says, Congress Should Respond by Banning 'Assault Weapons'

The president seems to have forgotten his concession that such laws leave murderers with plenty of options that are "just as deadly."

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