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Yes? Not all abuse is physical.
He probably thinking his own family members stole from him. Its usually about money or relationship issues when it comes to these cases. He sold his house and moved to Hemet about 10 years ago and now lived alone without the family he spoke about. He probably held a grudge and something triggered it recently for him to go to the pd about it and it has been boiling. Maybe his family is still super active at the dance studios and he knew his targets will be there. His ex wife name is Helen Lai so maybe she has family or distant family that owns Lai lai studios(just a theory)
Edit- I've been thinking about how it's very unusual for the asian community to report or go to the police for anything so maybe he planted this idea or went to the hemet police to lowkey tell the public on why he did the things he did. Because why report something that happened years ago? The time line matches up to his divorce he filed and him moving to hemet alone due to money drama in his family.
The ex wife isnt saying much because she dont want more people digging into her private life. >

Not the same Lai. The Lai usually used as a surname is 赖, and the Lai in Lai Lai is 来, as in come. Lai Lai is owned by the family of the guy who wrestled the gun away from him. >

Sweet summer child, Reddit cake day is the anniversary when the user joined Reddit. >

… smh 🤦‍♂️ >

The article says he doesn't fit the usual mass shooter profile because of how old he is...but I'm wondering if that's changing.
Maybe it's just me, but my Asian dad who's also in his 70s, is changing because he keeps watching these Chinese youtube channels of people yelling angrily about how society is corrupt and they need to reclaim it. He's a retired engineer. He's smart, he used to be level-headed and logical. But now I see him sit for hours a day and mindlessly lets youtube suggest the next video of some angry dude yelling about how everything is going to shit and you need to fight back. And now he's also become more angry and irritable, thinks the worst of everything, and way more reactionary and aggressive.
And I can't help that older folks who don't really get technology + their minds are starting to degrade from old age + being bombarded by clickbait content designed to illicit outrage means we might have a new profile of angry shooters who've been radicalized into thinking they have nothing left to lose. >

Bro my mom went way down some internet shit that changed her so much I can't even talk to her. Highly educated, speaks four languages, taught me all about respecting others and accepting people. Used to travel the world teaching folks. Now she can't go ten minutes without talking about how people need to go back to Africa or Asia. She's an immigrant too. Just about the most miserable person I know. >

I empathize. My mother with an MS in chemistry, who voted for Bernie Sanders, became a trump supporter and an Anti-Vaxxer in her final years. 
Talked shitty about immigrants, born of immigrants, married to man born of an immigrant. Fought the racism my cousins (more visibly ethnic than us) faced, later parroted racist stereotypes from Fox. 
The only thing that started to crack her new shell of ignorance was when my dad’s cancer got worse and COVID nearly did him in; she cared about vaccines suddenly. But we didn’t have enough time to try to lead her away from the MAGA noise...we lost her last year (not to COVID), shortly after having lost my dad. 
One of the greatest evils being inflicted on us is having our parents stolen from us in their final years, their hearts hardened and their eyes glazed to anything that does not reflect the hatred being pumped into their ears. >


who voted for Bernie Sanders, became a trump supporter and an Anti-Vaxxer in her final years.

wtf? what a quick turnaround. any idea what flipped the switch? >

Right? I don’t mean disrespect to the OP, but I just don’t understand how a person could change so much, especially if they’ve been the same way for literally decades. >

As someone who went through the exact same thing, I’d say old age, social isolation, plus a sedentary lifestyle (ie retirement or not having a job to go to) can really take it’s toll on the human mind, especially when someone was in poor health to begin with. The internet has exacerbated it in recent decades as well. >

Societal isolation was definitely a factor. My mom had 0, I mean zero, real life friends. She had friends in MMORPGs who liked her and my dad bc they were old people who played and bought fellow players things in-game (sometimes with their limited real world cash to buy in-game currency).  Her ability to disconnect from the internet or tv was bad when I was 8, but it was ridiculous by the time I was an adult. 
I sometimes wonder what could have been, if she’d been less-loathing about making IRL friends. >

My mom is in the same boat. Zero real life friends, except her own mom who is in her 90s. When my grandma passes I'm terrified what will become of my mom. >

This article has the ex wife and a friend of the shooter statements but it looked like he also had a grudge against the dance club, saying: 

They painted a slightly harsher picture of Tran than the ex-wife, describing how he was “hostile to a lot of people” at the dance studio and that he believed other instructors said “evil things about him.” >

This guy sounds schizo/paranoid like the fairly recent Walmart shooter that had a "death note" that he wrote that said he could hear his coworkers laughing at him and his phone was hacked. >

Maybe, just maybe, medicare for all could fix the alarming rise in mental health issues. >

Once they took away the coverage along with decline in taking up psychiatry and mental wellbeing as a fundamental need...  doesn't matter how fit you are. Couple hits to the head, depression, shitty family, no support, toxic friends or social media, or toxic workplace, debt, other illness, discharge from military without support...  any one can be a walking end. >

They have been divorced for 15+ years and he is still pissed & wants to shoot her? Talk about holding a grudge. >

Even if its towards the ex wife, she wouldnt speak on it to make it a huge deal where shes in question. I am chinese and I know most immigrants like my parents and grandparents do not want to speak to the media at all for anything. 
He went to the hemet police to report Fraud, theft and poisoning incidents that happened 10 years ago in San Gabriel just a couple weeks ago on jan 7th. So he def have been thinking or has been paranoid about family issues that isnt resolved in his head. 
The ex wife do not want to flaunt dirty laundry out to the world so she said the absolutely tiniest amount she could to be out of the limelight so she isnt going to be questioned any longer on this issue
He divorced her and filed for it in 2005 in la county public records. He also moved away from LA to Hemet in 2013 so this is all about 10 to 20 year ago and the timeline matches his police reporting of how these things mightve taken place and explains him moving to live alone out in hemet without any family members. >

All we can do is guess and I won't say that I'm 100% sure it's something that I believe, because we don't have any solid info except all these rumours. But if it were a Targeted at towards the family of the ex or the ex wife I'm sure he woulda had much more success in killing them at their homes. 
I live 5mins away from here and grew up here. So tbh I only just want to know why someone would do this. But the guy seemed to target dance halls and he was a dancer at the first location, articles say that people at these dance halls would say "evil things" to him. 
Just seems odd that he went to dance halls instead of the ez wife's house if he was targeting his ex wife. >

I also live down the street and lived in sgv my whole life. Anyways I feel like he did it at the studio because he has burned bridges there and probably has some hatred towards people there along with his ex wife and her friends. He probably wanted to leave a mark and destroy the place a sa whole. He went there daily, met his wife there and probably introduced his friends to go there. His whole life was once at those studios and it's all hes known. >

Yea, I mean there's so much info coming out tbh, your guess is as good as mine. Makes sense to attack the dance hall. There are suspicions that he may have had some sort of  mental illness also. 
I just feel sorry for the victims families. >

This guy is a hero. I don't even know how I'd react in that situation. But with reports coming out about other weapons found in the van, I was getting so tense that he didn't instantly lock the door after the guy walked out. >

Omg right? That guy could have been going to his car to get his other gun. Lock the damn doors!! But it is so easy to say things like this not being in his shoes… it is easy to think logically when you’re watching what is going on, how many of us scream at horror movies to not get separated from your friends, or do this instead of that? Maybe the old man was avoiding a shoot out, or didnt think it was a big deal he lost his gun as he had others. I think what is bothering me most is we might not know his real motive, it’s not like everyone keeps a detailed journal, he might have not had any manifestos. Are they even doing an autopsy? >

I recognize that this is an awkward thing to say, but if his beef was with his ex-wife, why kill everyone else? >

police have said he reported that his family was trying to "poison" him, so it sounds like he was already suffering from some kind of schizoid disorder. I know a college buddy's brother who suffers from bipolar issues and schizo-affective disorder. He goes in & out of phases where he's logical & lucid to edgy & paranoid. Thank god he doesn't have access to firearms. >

My dad is in his 70s, has access to firearms, and is prone to bouts of extreme paranoia. They are almost entirely focused on his sister who lives 2000 miles away. They are proportionally worse in relation to how drunk he is.
Not gonna lie that it concerns me though. >

He's 70 and has paranoia, I think it's time for you and your family to restrict access to his firearms as a precaution, his paranoia might expand to others. >

My dad had Alzheimer's. We found his firearms in a file cabinet in a drawer labeled "guns". True story. They weren't loaded and he was no longer living in the home. >

When the family finally decided my grandfather with Alzheimer's couldn't be trusted with guns anymore; they were finding them EVERYWHERE  because he had already been pretty out of it for two years. They were in the attic; random coat pockets; cabinets; drawers; trash bags of old clothes. The whole house had to be torn apart because he never told anyone when he bought a gun, including his wife so it was never certain if they were all found. It's s really a miracle he didn't hurt anyone at some point. >

The search for a motive for a total nut case is unlikely to find a meaningful one. >

shit, i’m just still in so much shock because i have friends who live arnd there and so many of my classmates were also planning on going to the lunar new year festival. honestly we all thought it might’ve been a hate crime too, but damn. 
but no matter the motive, it’s just so awful and unfortunate to see lives lost, and this hits so much harder for me because i’ve grown up around this community, and seeing it make news for something like this is just terrible. >

Oh so it’s yet another violent misogynist/domestic abuser graduating to mass violence.
It’s more surprising when a mass shooter doesn’t have a history of misogynistic violence. >

He’s been divorced for 18 years and the ex-wife insists he wasn’t violent, just kind of insufferable.  And he initiated that divorce.
If it’s related to the ex-wife, then he’s been a simmering misogynist loner for almost two decades. >

Aka 90% of Reddit >

Really comforting to know with all the responsible 3d gun printing being promoted. >

Domestic violence should be taken way more seriously considering how often it's a precursor to gun violence. But it won't because it's a "woman" issue. >

there is also that 40% stat that 40% of domestic abuse situations involve police abusing a spouse. >

Nah the stat is that 40% of police surveyed admitted to domestic abuse. Still an insane figure because that's just the ones who have no problem admitting to it. >

Yes but they counted yelling and such as violence. Not physical contact.