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  You the real hero
context: Update: Officials Say Gunman Who Killed 10 in California Is Dead due to Self-Inflict Gunshot Wounds. The Suspect’s Body was Found Inside a Van in Torrance. >
  
  UPDATE: The unidentified person who was found deceased is in fact, the gunman from the Monterey Park Mass Shooting. He is identified as 72-Year-Old Huu Can Tran. Took his own life via Self-Gunshot Wound.
  EDIT 1: OK. I'm not really sure some sources have it as Yuu Can Tran whereas other sources have it as Huu Can Tran. >
  
  Wow is he the oldest mass shooter on record? >
  
  He probably played too many video games obviously /s >
  
  In the press conference, they said something about another incident a few blocks down the street at Alhambra, and that they were looking into whether that might be connected.  Does anyone know what happened in that other incident? >
  
  If this did happen, than it’s one of 3 potential scenarios as far as I could see: 
  1) It’s the same shooter from the first club, who tried to continue his spree - but got caught and simply hasn’t been confirmed to be the same guy yet. 
  2) It’s a whole different guy, and if so - that’s a remarkable coincidence…
  3) If it’s NOT a coincidence that there were two shootings from two different people, than that would suggest a coordinated planned event of some kind. >_< >
  
  “Saturday's shooting was the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County since a disgruntled ex-husband killed 10 people in Covina in 2008.”
  Disgruntled?! What a choice of words. >
  
  That Covina massacre was absolutely horrific. He came in the house dressed as Santa, immediately started shooting and spraying gasoline from a compressed container as a homemade flame thrower. Horrible. >
  
  Absolutely horrific. I was flabbergasted that the reporter would choose that word, but what’s worse is that it’s the exact word used in the first line of Wikipedia page. >
  
  Idk if it cones from law enforcement, or media standard, but "disgruntled" is used to desribe criminals all the time. Disgruntled employees. Disgruntled spouse. I see it a lot. >
  
  It's a media term- rather than use a spread of different specific terms, it's more efficient to use a single term for a motivated, angry individual, makes it easier to push stories to print. Plus, you don't have to know the full motive to use "disgruntled", and police investigations can take time to uncover the full reasoning behind the murder. >
  
  At a ballroom having a Lunar New Year event >
  
  The story has been updated, the shooting seems to have occured at Star Dance Studio. Shooter entered the front door and just opened fire indiscriminately.
  19 people were shot according to the scanner, 12 casualties including the club’s boss according to an eyewitness account.
  Police press conference scheduled by 4 am California time.
  Edit: updates from police press conference, 10 confirmed dead, 10 known to be injured from stable to critical conditions and transported to hospitals. Shooter is not caught. Identity and motive is not known. >
  
  What is this world.. all out to have a fun time and celebrate, all to change in a blink of an eye. A week of celebration turned into day of horrors. >
  
  America, where anyone can get a military weapon and wipe out the life of a mass amount of people. Not the rest of the world, this is just an American problem and y'all vote in Republicans who allow this. >
  
  It's a gun problem!
  No it's a mental health problem!
  America: does absolutely fuck all about either. >
  
  There are people with mental health problems all over the world, and many countries suck just as bad if not worse than the US in handling mental health. Yet other countries do not have mass murders like this every few weeks. 
  Case in point: the same exact day the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre took place, a mentally ill man in China walked into an elementary school and attacked a group of 1st graders. 20 were injured, none died. Why? Because the MFer had a knife! If he had an AR 15 like Adam Lanza did, this situation would have been very different. 
  Guns are not the only problem, but they are a big part of why this happens just in the US and not anywhere else. >
  
  Word.
  Poor mental health causes issues.
  Poor mental health with a gun culture causes mass shootings. >
  
  Doesn't really prove a ton given how many Americans avoid treatment for many illnesses due to not being able to afford it.  A ton of mentally ill people slip through the cracks. >
  
  Oh I'm pretty sure they have a real good description, they're just not releasing it yet. Shooter might feel more confident going outside if his face isn't plastered everywhere while the cops search all his known hideouts. >
  
  But then how will reddit identify the wrong person? >
  
  Don't worry, they will anyway >
  
  Well, that makes you my personal, uninformed suspect. Who could possibly caution against my non-professional assumptions I learned from podcasts! >
  
  Dude was actually caught via the sketch amazingly enough >
  
  I've seen multiple different people identify the same person based on a worse drawing before, if you can believe that.
  Freshman year of college I had a friend who would always talk about this guy in his engineering classes that he hated. I don't even remember why he hated this guy, but he really hated him. One night later in the year, he drew a picture of him on the whiteboard in our dorm's common room. Now this was a fucking awful drawing, it was the kind of quality you'd expect from a kid or something, but multiple different people walked in while we were sitting there and said "hey, I know who that is!"
  When someone has a particularly unusual face, a drawing often doesn't  have to be good at all to be identifiable. >
  
  i bought shrooms from a guy at a festival based on a pictograph description of him on a piece of cardboard someone sketched me because they were too high to use their words  
  found him, sho nuff >
  
  Wow. Monterey PD confirming 10 dead, up to 10 more wounded in various conditions at local hospitals.
  Suspect still at large. Asking for tips/help from the community.
  Fucking terrible. >
  
  Being wounded by gunfire is often life altering. This isn't really talked about much. Massive scarring, amputation, loss of limb function... >
  
  Absolutely. So many who have been wounded by guns are completely changed after. Years of pain, physical therapy, major surgeries, huge medical debt, you name it. My heart goes out to anyone involved in this. >
  
  It's always sooo much more people suffering. 10 people shot but alive can mean anything from wounds that are not threatening at all to being paralyzed or having limbs amputated. In my work I sometimes deal with disabled people and it often leads to family arguments, divorces, kids leaving their parents, financial problems due to medical bills, having to sell house because you can't pay credit loan and many many more problems. One shooting survivor can spiral into whole family hating each other, mental illnesses, depression and sometimes even suicides. >
  
  Such an unbelievably important concept and it applies to all forms of trauma. Idk how many eyes will read this but thanks for taking the time to express it. >
  
  One of the saddest case I have seen was electrician that got shocked by high voltage line. Physically he was completely fine. Small burns on hands that got healed in a matter of a few weeks. But his brain is what got damaged. He was married for 20 years and have a 12 year old son. His behaviour completely changed. He would sometimes not recognize his own family members. Stop mid sentence to forget what he was talking about. Asking the same question couple times in a row even tho he got the answer ever single time. Imagine you are married for 20 years and all of a sudden one day your husband changes so much that it feels like a complete stranger moved in and is faking to be your husband. This accident completely devastated their family. Son would stop talking to dad because he wouldn't understand why is behaving this way. Wife got severe depression and panic attacks ultimately leading to her moving out with son to her parents. They did not divorce because she truly loved him but it was impossible to raise a kid in that environment. I could go on for hours about similar cases. Many times this problems arise many years after accidents. Family members get tired of taking care of disabled relatives, money and time spend is almost always the problem but also mental health. It's tragic to see. >
  
  Ah man. That's so sad to hear. You are a hero for helping these folks out. That has to be traumatic in it's own way >
  
  To be precise I'm not a social worker, doctor or anything like that. I work in law office that helps people to receive fair compensation from insurance companies. Difference between what companies offer and what we can realistically get is sometimes up to 10-20 times more. Most cases with serious injuries end up in court and it can take years. Longest case I have is 10 years already and still going. In this time you get to know this people and their families very well. I'm a part of their life. But as I mentioned majority of family problems come from money problems. And if we cen get these people money that they deserve it really helps to pay the bills.