'This could've been much worse. The weapon that we recovered at that second scene [was] a magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol.'
A sign on the door at Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra on Sunday. Photo: Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images
Los Angeles County authorities praised two civilians Sunday for disarming a gunman at an Alhambra, California, dance studio whom they believe was the same man they suspect was responsible for thePolice believe the suspect went to the Lai Lai Ballroom in the nearby city of Alhambra after the shooting in Monterey Park on the eve of Lunar New Year Saturday night, but Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a Sunday eveningmajority Asian AmericanNo one was injured in the second incident in...
Authorities identified the suspect in both incidents as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old man whose body was found inside a cargo van following a standoff with police in Torrance, California. He died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, authorities said."Remember, the suspect went to the Alhambra location after he conducted the shooting [in Monterey Park], and he was disarmed by two community members who I consider to be heroes," Luna said.
"They saved lives. This could've been much worse. The weapon that we recovered at that second scene I am describing as a magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol," he added. "Not an assault rifle, but an assault pistol that had an extended large capacity magazine attached to it."
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