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Lunar year bay area after attacks11/10/2023 ![]() “I felt hesitant about coming, I thought maybe I should stay home in case the suspect showed up,” said Chow. Crowds gathered around the stage where Taiko drummers and dragon dancers held the audience captive and small children perched on their parents shoulders craning their necks to see the stage and the brightly colored costumes. The Rancho Cucamonga festival was set out in three aisles with food and retail vendors scattered throughout, selling colorful wares and tantalizing snacks. RELATED: New details emerge on Monterey Park mass shooting that left 10 deadĮric Luan, president of Panana Events, added that it was important that celebrations continue to “stop Asian hate” and for “AAPI groups to show their culture and community.” Celebrating Lunar New Year is a way to instill traditions and a love of their heritage in the next generation, he said. Panana Events, the organizer of both events, is coordinating with city officials and law enforcement to enhance security. 22, and next week’s Riverside Lunar Festival will also go forward. Rancho Cucamonga Lunar Festival took place Sunday, Jan. The person who fled the scene is preliminarily described as “a male Asian,” he says, adding there were different descriptions from witnesses and victims.ġ0:20 a.m.As the community reels from Saturday night’s mass shooting in Monterey Park, which left 10 people dead and at least 10 injured, some event organizers still plan to go ahead with Lunar New Year celebrations. The suspected gunman is still at large, says Luna. PT Sunday: Police release a description of the suspect This sparks a manhunt across the region.Ĩ:35 a.m. This could’ve been much worse,” he said.Ī description of a white van seen leaving the Alhambra dance studio is broadcast to area law enforcement agencies. It is identified as a magazine-fed semi-automatic assault pistol that had an extended large capacity magazine attached to it, the sheriff said. However, authorities say two people wrestled a gun away from the man, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna. ![]() “We struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other.” “When I got the courage, I lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle,” Tsay said. Tsay says he realized then he needed to disarm the man, he told GMA. Witness Brandon Tsay hears the door close and “the sound of metal,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The armed man shows up at the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in nearby Alhambra, a few miles away from the site of the shooting. PT: The gunman appears at a second dance studioĪ man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in Alhambra, not long after a shooting inside a different dance studio. “Inside, they came across a scene that none of them had been prepared for.”Īround 10:45 p.m. There were people trying to flee out all the doors,” Wiese said. When they arrive at the dance studio, they see chaos and “extensive carnage,” says Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese. Police respond within three minutes of the first call for help. PT Saturday, January 21: Shots are fired at a dance studioĪ man enters and starts shooting inside Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park near a Lunar New Year celebration. ![]() This is what we know about how the shooting and manhunt unfolded.ġ0:22 p.m. The shooting at a Monterey Park, California, dance studio Saturday night set off a 12-hour manhunt for the gunman who carried out the attack that left 11 people dead and almost as many injured.Īuthorities were able to track him down by tracing the semi-automatic weapon he was holding, which yielded his name and description.
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