Police records provide some insight into the Monterey Park gunman's worldview, a paranoid outlook that may have persisted over decades.
Three decades before he shot 11 people to death in a Monterey Park ballroom, Huu Can Tran told police he believed relatives of a woman he’d been dating had threatened to kill him and were trying to lure him into a trap.
Investigators have not disclosed whether they have identified a motive, and Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said last week they knew of no connection between Tran and his victims,The sheriff said Tran had been arrested just once — in 1990, on suspicion of illegally possessing a firearm — but provided no other details.
After waiving his Miranda rights, Tran said he’d been walking his dog when he saw a Latino man running out of George’s Liquor on New Avenue carrying a “metal box.” The owner ran outside, pointed to the man and said he had “robbed money,” Tran told police. He took off running after the man.All 11 people killed in the Monterey Park shooting have been identified. They’re remembered as dancers, beloved family members and pillars of the community.
The day after Christmas in 1992, Tran called the San Gabriel police and claimed he was being threatened. Officer C.E. Gray went to his home on Manor Way to take a report. Tran, who reported working as a self-employed carpet cleaner, told police he got another call from a man who asked to come “immediately” to clean the carpets in his Torrance home. Knowing that both the husband and sister-in-law of the woman he was dating lived in Torrance, Tran thought it could be a set-up, and he told the caller he didn’t work in the evening, he told police.
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