Authorities say a 72-year-old man suspected of the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after officers approached his vehicle.
Gunman had been a regular patron at dance hall he attacked, according to people who knew himin a Southern California dance studio had once been a regular presence at the venue, even meeting his ex-wife there, three people who knew him told CNN.
His ex-wife said in an interview that she had met Tran about two decades ago at the dance studio, a popular community gathering place where he gave informal lessons. Tran saw her at a dance, introduced himself, and offered her free lessons, she said. Tran was an immigrant from China, according to a copy of his marriage license that his ex-wife showed to CNN.Another long-time acquaintance of Tran’s also remembered him as a frequent presence at the dance studio. The friend, who also asked not to be named, was close to Tran in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when he said Tran would make the roughly 5-minute drive from his home in San Gabriel to Star Ballroom Dance Studio “almost every night.
More generally, Tran was easily irritated, complained a lot, and didn’t seem to trust people, the friend said.Business records show that Tran registered a business called Tran’s Trucking Inc. in California in 2002. But he dissolved the firm about two years later, writing in a corporate filing that the it had never acquired any known assets or incurred any known debts or liabilities.In 2013, Tran sold his San Gabriel home, which he had owned for more than two decades, property records show.
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