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  NBC Seafood is also a restaurant in Monterey Park, about a mile away. ABC is a Hong Kong-style cafe, basically Cantonese comfort food and western dishes on the same menu, while NBC is more upscale, serving dim sum in the daytime and sit down full service in the evenings. They are probably the most popular place in the region for Chinese banquets for weddings and other special occasions.
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. >
  
  You the real hero >
  
  ANOTHER cargo van with a swat team approaching with guns drawn? This shits crazy. 
  Van is just across the street. >
  
  What channel are you watching this on? >
  
  Yeah I’ve been seeing that. It’s most likely true based on the demeanor of LE at the scene with the van. Plus I heard them saying on the police scanner that there was “absolutely no movement” inside the van when they checked with a drone. >
  
  Deceased individual in the van. Swat cleared it and walked away. While the footage was not being broadcast, news helicopter zoomed in and reporter confirmed it. Deceased individual in driver's seat. >
  
  Hearing at least ten dead and they haven't found the shooter. >
  
  I believe he targeted this place on purpose instead of outright crowd shooting because there was a huge festival with thousands of people on the same block this happened but it ended at 9pm and this occured at 10:20pm. I was there around 8pm. I think this was an isolated incident and not a random shooting. Hard to imagine when this happens in your own city. >
  
  I know the feeling - I almost attended the Gilroy Garlic Festival the day the shooting happened there. I didn’t know if any of my friends or people I know had been shot. I almost attended the festival that day. Scary stuff.. >
  
  Same. My wife and I were going to go on Sunday but decided to go on Saturday instead. >
  
  Thank you >
  
  This is sad, I've been to the place before several times and I know the owner's daughter. Apparently from a local interview, he was shot first and the gunman indiscriminately fired at the dancefloor and fled. Dude he's such a sweet and happy guy, I don't know how to feel. >
  
  I'm local too and this is heartbreaking. originally i suspected some hate crime against Asians but now it's even more confusing since the shooter suspect is an Asian dude. >
  
  From what I can tell (I’m also local) he was angry that his wife was invited to this dance event on Facebook and attended without him and he wasn’t? And that was “why” — but it’s all maybe just conjecture 
  idk, I’ve really tried to stay off twitter all day but the amount of strawman arguments IMMEDIATELY being pushed is sort of sickening to me. At this point you could easily train a few dozen bots to churn out a carbon copy of every knee-jerk argument everyone is currently having online. we are in some circle of hell, that’s all I know. >
  
  that's very shocking if it's true that he went on a rampage because his wife was invited and he wasn't 🤦‍♀️
  and yeah the only Twitter i saw was a photo of the suspect, i don't even wanna know what they're saying about this, it just tragic. and on new years too :( >
  
  Image of suspected perp slumped over front seat of the white van shown on CNN before they cut away. NSFW/L - but it's not graphic, blurry from overhead helicopter. >
  
  that person is wearing the same color jacket that the suspect was wearing in the picture. Obviously might still not be him but its possible. >
  
  Latest is a subject looking like the suspect - Asian male was found deceased in a van matching the suspect’s vehicle. No motive has been released yet. >
  
  Is it just me but do you sometimes now go into a large space or a heavily crowded place and scope for the exits and/or a hiding place in case something like this happens? >
  
  Situational awareness training I took while enlisted taught me to just never be in a heavily crowded place for long.  I avoid them like the plague.  I just can't be comfortable being stationary and surrounded by so many people.
  If there's a city wide event going on like the Boston Marathon I stay out of the city that day.  I skipped my college graduation, although I did attend my school's award ceremony because it was smaller.
  It sucks, but I was trained to be aware of my surroundings and it stuck.  If I ever have to be in a crowd for long (I've photographed some protests for work) then I stick to the periphery and keep an exit in mind and watch my surroundings like a hawk. >
  
  This is good whether you’re in the US or anywhere else. Gun aside, crowd compressions, stampedes, fires, and structural collapses are all huge dangers when in a crowd.
  Honestly I don’t go anywhere that I can’t easily walk out of. >
  
  It appears the suspect is either dead or incapacitated. SWAT is waiting to check on the contents of the van. Probably in case of explosives or other weapons. >
  
  As a Monterey Park resident, it’s almost 6am and I haven’t had any sleep with the constant police and news helicopter hovering outside, and the thought that the gunman on the loose still is absolutely terrifying.
  This is the literal definition of “it hits too close to home”. This is home for me, and all the peace and safety I’ve known of this city my whole life is gone now. This is a place where you can feel like you know the other person helping you at a market register because you all share a common background or upbringing with the Asian American diversity that abounds. This is a community where police presence at a community event isn’t for show of force, but rather an extension of neighborly love: fellow residents meeting other residents. This is a city where I can’t remember the last time a murder or assault with a deadly weapon took place. 
  All that, is forever changed now. I’m saddened, disgusted and in disbelief of what’s transpired in the last 9 hours. The numbness will soon set in, like with every other mass shooting in the US. But this one, truly does feel different and life won’t be the same after for me and the 60,000 others who calls Monterey Park home. >
  
  I don't even know how to process this, I've lived here for 23 years and these kinds of things don't happen here. It's different when it is a place you know. I knew the owner, he was shot and his daughter couldn't even identify with the coroner yet as things are just folding out. >
  
  Born and raised here too, with a shop only a block away. Probably would've been within 100 feet of the incident if it wasn't the weekend. This is the worst way to see one's home on the front page of social medias..
  Monterey Park was a city where nothing ever happens, and nothing ever changes. Even when the rest of the world felt less and less safe lately, things hardly changed here. Old people still doing tai chi at Barnes Park. Kids still walking home from school down Garfield and Garvey. We don't really have gang violence or apprehension against police here, or things like that. We were just a tight-knit, boring, small blip on the map no one's ever heard of.
  Edit: I hate what this will do to our city, no matter how we try to recover. Now we're another mass shooting statistic and US horror story to the world. We'll be pulled into gun and anti-asian hate discussions. People here will be thinking about having concealed carry at work and on the streets. People will be a little less friendly, a little more vigilant.
  You really don't know what you have until it's gone. I'm missing yesterday's quiet, boring town already. >
  
  How diverse is the Asian community there? I was looking up statistics and it says the area is two-third Asian, but is it primarily Chinese or Korean or something else or just a diverse mix? >
  
  Primarily Chinese. I think it says on wiki that MPK has the highest concentration of people of Chinese descent in the US.
  To give you an idea of how Chinese this neighborhood is, Chinese immigrants can live here (in the 626) without learning a single word of English and be completely fine. >
  
  Chinese folks will learn Spanish before they learn any English. It's that dense. >
  
  I was just at the Lunar Festival with thousands of people there at 8pm and I was hoping it didn't occur there. It was an isolated incident at the dance hall on the same block at 10pm; it was all just middle-aged people there celebrating. My friend's dad is the owner of the place, and apparently he was shot first in the head. I knew him too, this is so sad. He was always smiling and laughing with us.
  I've been there several times and really didn't expect this to happen there. The shooter definitely knew the people there and targeted them for a reason. I don't think this is a hate crime; I lived here for 23 years and this just doesn't happen here. If the perpetrator wanted to cause mass casualties, it wouldn't have been at the dance studio. >
  
  Glad to hear you're alright. They just don't happen in places until one day unfortunately they do. >
  
  This area is one of the most friendly and low-gun crime area and it's just really unexpected to see this happen here. I was fortunate to not eat in that area after I left the festival. I was literally a mile away when this happened, it's hard to fathom how close this hits since this doesn't really happen in LA, until tonight.
  My friend was tracking her father, the owner of the studio through her phone and his phone never left the parking lot location. No one at the USC hospital and police station is officially confirming whether he is at the hospital or the coroner. I don't even know how she can deal with this. >
  
  I’m from Thousand Oaks and we had the lowest rate of gun violence for a city of at least 100k people until we didn’t >
  
  Holy shit I was there yesterday!! I went with my girlfriend to celebrate the new years around noon, so thankfully wasn’t there when the gunman opened fire but holy fuck that’s scary >
  
  Im glad you and your girlfriend are safe. >
  
  Scanner saying no movement in the van via checking with live drone. Suspect is most definitely dead. Fuck him. >
  
  I fucking hate that this bitch ass got off easy. >
  
  Literally same. It pisses me off to no end when these mass shooters kill themselves because they can’t deal with the consequences. Fucking assholes to the core. >
  
  Absolutely. Killed people, crushed so many families in one night just to kill himself anyways because he didn’t want to get caught. >
  
  My citizen app said police were reporting over 10 people were dead inside a store and in a parking lot >
  
  What is a citizen app? >
  
  mad useful for nyc but they expanded now >
  
  I used it for a while when living in california. I believe it gives a skewed sense of reality as it made me feel like I lived in a war zone despite living in the most boring suburb. 
  I uninstalled it after a month, didn't serve me any good. It just made me stress over stuff I had no control over. >
  
  I’ve gotten notifications about people arguing over the sound of their AC unit and smells of smoke that turned out to be people cooking lol. Definitely useful… >
  
  My brother in atlanta use to get man wielding pipe and woman wielding brick alerts a lot >
  
  i cant remember the countless nights I went to grab food at Monterey Park… its like every asian/international students weekend dinner go-to place. >
  
  This is my home town. This domestic terrorist shit has to stop. >
  
  That's dreadful; I grew up there and attended the lunar new year's celebration every year. I've never felt unsafe, so seeing something like this happen so close to home is surreal. >
  
  As an Asian American here, I really hope this time, it'll spark Asian American political activism. We're not even 2 years out from Atlanta ...
  Edit: I wish people would understand that these shootings, in addition to ones such as Laguna Church are both expressions of mass gun violence combined with other social issues within or without my community but affecting it nonetheless. The salient part is that I have observed amongst my community a certain belief that they will be safe by just going about their lives, settling in Asian enclaves such as Monterey and believing this will shelter them from the social issues and problems plaguing America. That the shooter is Asian doesn't mean my comment is misplaced; my community, my people, they need to be politically active, historically minded, socially aware, involved because American social issues affect us too, we too are Americans. There is no escape from that reality other than being involved and politically active. >
  
  Also Asian American here. Sadly I am extremely pessimistic about the prospect of Asian American political power in this country. (Edit: on the state/national level)
  We are very frequently the most dismissed and overlooked minority in the country. We are often ignored by, or even discriminated against by many liberal policies aimed to help minorities (e.g Affirmative Action). On the other hand we are just straight up hated by many on the right.
  It also doesn't help that as a voting block, we are bitterly divided as well. Many millennial and Gen-Z Asian Americans like me lean liberal meanwhile most of my friends' parents (first generation immigrants) are staunch Republican voters. So neither side really tries much to pursue Asian Americans as a voting block demographically. 
  Then culturally, different groups of Asian Americans also fight against each other due to culture and social economical background. The joke is that nobody hates Asian people more than other Asian people. Asian American politicians also tend to receive a ton of negativity from other Asian and minority groups. For example whenever an Indian American runs for a local election you can almost bet the Chinese Americans would be voting for the other candidate (only if they are white though), and vice versa. It's tragic to be honest.
  So yeah, call me pessimistic, but I don't think this event, even if it were later proven to be a hate crime against Asians, will move the needle at all in terms of Asian American political activism.
  Edit: The above are my personal observations and derived opinions only and should not be taken as objective facts. There are a ton of writings on this topic from actual domain experts. Please look them up if you are interested.
  Edit 2: To the people who picks a “sound bite” out of my comment and try to start a fight by personally attacking me: Sorry no. I’m not going to engage with you just because you want to feel good about yourself from your moral pedestal. 
  I am, however, willing to discuss any point and listen to different perspectives in a civilized manner. >
  
  This is a great breakdown, my wife is Asian and from California. You hit all her political talking points. >
  
  Thank you. Obviously the problem is much more in-depth and nuanced than my short comment above, and by no means can I claim that I speak for all Asian Americans or even remotely authoritatively on this specific issue. 
  But interestingly, I do find 2nd-generation and later generation Asian immigrants get a lot better when it comes to not liking other Asian groups. I think unlike their parents, they don't have the same culture background, or in this case, baggage that leads to a lot of the inter-group resentment. >
  
  My wife explaining the Asian hierarchy to me when we first started dating blew my mind. Obviously this was coming from her parents perspective and their nationality was top of the mountain of course. >
  
  
  My wife explaining the Asian hierarchy
  
  Can you explain it please? >
  
  I will explain it from my Japanese FIL perspective, he was a salary man working for a Japanese company but he lived in SoCal. 
  
  Japanese people are the best, Japan is the best country in Asia. 
  I have to deal with the Chinese because of their economic capabilities but I don’t like it. 
  We don’t trust Koreans because of centuries of wars but they are an economic power so I will have to talk to them every once in a while. 
  Hodgepodge of a bunch of other Asian nations
  Philippines are usually at the bottom, mixed race was usually his call out. Also they tend to be the low caste worker in other Asian countries. 
  
  There was a bunch of racist stuff that I am omitting but he didn’t really focus on other countries only traditional Asian areas. Living in Socal (where all these nationalities are well represented) for 45 years did not temper his outlook. >
  
  “Centuries of wars” as in repeated invasion and colonization by the Japanese? Haha Japanese xenophobes are really something else sometimes. >
  
  Hey man I’m just recounting my FIL’s thoughts. I stay way out of those topics of discussion. >
  
  No I know, I’m the same way with older ppl in my life. >
  
  This happened less than a block from one of my favorite restaurants in Los Angeles; my wife and I eat there all the time.
  My heart goes out to all of the families who will now have beds, slippers, toothbrushes, and all the other little echoes of a living, breathing loved one that will never get used again. Stuff they now have to box up or throw away.
  This shit is real, spreading, and at this rate will touch all of us at some point. >
  
  That was a touching reminder of what the focus should be on right now,  the victims.  I hate seeing walls of posts about the supposed race of the shooter or guns before getting to the point that so many people just had their lives turned into a nightmare. >
  
  10 dead. People don't understand the impact of shootings beyond the killed/injured. Everyone who witnessed this will never be the same. Trust me - I'm speaking from first-hand experience. I was 7 years old when a gunman came into the restaurant where I was eating with my family. We were all held hostage and several people were shot. I can't even quantify the damage that is done when you are facing imminent death. When people are shot feet away from you. When you hear round after round after round. Screaming. People pleading for their lives.
  You're hiding and you wonder if you're next. Your parents praying & telling you you're going to heaven.
  They will never trust the same. They will never feel completely safe again. Those horrible memories will continue to haunt them and re-emerge everytime they hear about another senseless shooting. People need to start putting themselves in these victim's shoes before they open their mouths. Ignoring headlines like this is not normal. We cannot become numb to this issue. We can't just accept it. It is unbelievably disrespectful to the victims of these tragedies. I know this isn't a comfortable conversation, but it shouldn't be. We should all be VERY uncomfortable.
  I'm not looking for sympathy. I was lucky. I'm looking for empathy for these people and this problem. >
  
  When I first moved to LA I lived in Monterey Park. Blocks away from what happened. 
  The first night I got here after napping and unpacking, I finished my 3 am night by going out and getting something to eat. Starving and wanting to be adventurous I found a place right at Garfield and Garvey (couldn't find it to link? Maybe it shut down now?). It was poppin when I rolled in. Totally full. At 3 am. Kids playing with their parents as it were 2 pm and at a playground. (Chinese time was always my guess.)
  I was getting loads of weird looks as being the only white guy around. I ordered  something I had never tried before and honestly looked great with the menu pictures and descriptions. 
  Fried frog legs. 
  As I got it, literally all the other guest were staring. I was a bit uncomfortable at first, but after a few bites I was loving the sweet spicy mix of spices with the fall off the bone tender delicious frog, people were smiling and definitely talking about me. (I didn't understand a word but you know when people are talking about you, good or bad.)
  After I got in a few bites in I looked up to smiles and nods, which I reciprocated because i enjoyed it.
  They started off as strangers when I moved there. But honestly they have been the best and most welcoming community that I have ever dealt with. I feel more at home with stories of these friendly strangers than I have ever living on the west side. 
  I miss the area and the people because they are special and make you feel like you belong even with only a head nod. 
  I dunno, maybe I'm rambling after being too close to too many shootings but this one hit different. 
  I hope for the best of the families of those affected and am honestly devastated as many of you are.
  Love you all. >
  
  That was probably the ABC Cafe, located kitty corner from the shooting location. They used to be open 24 hours and like many businesses nowadays have cut back on their hours. They were closed for a while and reopened recently under new management I believe. >
  
  You're right. I was looking up NBC, which isn't what I hadn't  said