Huu Can Tran told San Gabriel police that his relationship with a married woman led to a purported threat from a Taiwanese gang member.
The man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at a Monterey Park dance hall twice encountered San Gabriel police in the 1990s, once when he armed himself with a gun to chase a robbery suspect and a second time when he reported death threats from a shadowy Taiwanese gang, according to police reports.
Tran, 72, who most recently lived in Hemet, also went to the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in nearby Alhambra, which he entered with a semi-automatic pistol shortly after the Star Dance shooting. He was disarmed in a struggle withTran died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Jan. 22 as police closed in on his white van following a traffic stop in Torrance.
Kermode said in a report that he received a radio call of a possible robbery in the vicinity of Glendon Way and Del Mar Avenue. He reported that Tran ran up to his patrol car and stated that a “little store” had been robbed. When Kermode asked Tran what store had been robbed, Tran requested to be taken to New Avenue so that he could point it out,
Tran said he chased the man, but stopped at his home on Manor Way to drop off his dog and grab his gun for protection, and then continued to pursue the suspect, the report states. In another incident, Tran phoned San Gabriel police on Dec. 26, 1992, to report threats he had received stemming from his relationship with a married woman who was getting a divorce.
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