Vice President Kamala Harris visits growing memorial for Monterey Park shooting victims

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Vice President Kamala Harris placed a bouquet of yellow lilies, white roses and palm fronds among the other memorials. She looked at the photos of the victims, pausing in front of each one.

, as hundreds gathered in front of the dance studio where 11 people were gunned down amid Lunar New Year revelry Saturday night.

“I have had the unfortunate experience of visiting many of these sites,” Harris said during her visit to the Monterey Park dance studio where 11 were killed in a mass shooting.“Can they do something? Yes,” Harris said when asked whether the current Congress, now split after Republicans narrowly took control of the House this month, has the capacity to act on gun violence. “Should they do something? Yes.

Robert, an Arcadia resident who declined to provide his last name, came to the vigil to pay his respects and remember his “best friend,” Wen-Tau Yu, 64, who died in the shooting.Yu was talkative, Robert said, and their dinner conversation was filled with any and all subjects: dancing, jobs, families, ladies.

Four days into the investigation, fragments are emerging about Huu Can Tran’s motives for killing 11 people and wounding nine others in a mass shooting in Monterey Park. Kevin Leung, who spoke at Wednesday’s vigil holding a long candle, said Ma had given his kung fu class a home for eight years.“They really took us in to be part of the family,” he said.Suicides tend to occur in clusters that suggest contagion, but there is little evidence that murders or mass shootings follow the same pattern, experts say.

 

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Based on her record...it's a photo op...👀

Lol...photo op all it is.

Felt more like a forced photo opp, like that long-forgotten ex-co-worker that hasn't been part of their life suddenly caring and showing up, this is the most Harris has done in her 2 years as VP

🥺

Anything for a photo op.

A black female President and Jewish first man is what this country needs.

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