Monterey Park shooting victim ‘Andy’ Kao always carried his dancing shoes
Andy Kao had just turned his partner during an upbeat number at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio when a gunman walked in.
Kao was single and lived by himself in an apartment in South El Monte, where he was the only Asian tenant surrounded by Latino neighbors, and where he routinely played the saxophone in the evening, Vianeth Tellez, the apartment manager, said in an interview. Kao practiced at different dance studios. Last fall, a friend introduced him to the Evie Dance Studio in Pomona, where the crowd is predominantly Latino. Kao wanted to learn how to dance bachata and “street salsa,” which is less regimented than ballroom salsa.
Francois, who asked that his last name not be published, stands inside his Arcadia Donuts shop in Arcadia, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. He’s holding a poster featuring a photo of his wife, Shally, and her dance partner Yu-Lun “Andy” Kao, who died during a mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Shally survived.
A heart with personal messages for shooting victim Yu-Lun Kao, 72, is seen at a makeshift memorial outside the Monterey Park Civic Center in Monterey Park, Wednesday afternoon Jan. 25, 2023 for the 11 killed at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio Saturday night. People console each other during a memorial for the mass shooting victims outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023. A gunman killed eleven people and injured nine others at the dance studio after a Lunar New Year Festival near by on on January 21. Vice President Kamala Harris visits the makeshift memorial at the Monterey Park mass shooting site at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Wednesday, January 25, 2023.
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