Police say that the Monterey Park shooting suspect had no known connections to the victims and had voiced paranoid threats multiple times to authorities over the last 30 years. The hero who disarmed him was honored.
Monterey Park shooting suspect had no known connections to the victims
Huu Can Tran, the suspect in the January 21 Monterey Park mass shooting, had no known connection to any of the victims who were killed, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Police confirmed a total of three firearms registered to the suspect were recovered by detectives, as well as a motorcycle authorities believe was a potential alternate getaway vehicle, ABC reported.
Investigators still have no motive in the Monterey Park shooting
Authorities say they have been unable to “establish a connection between the suspect or any of the victims thus far” in terms of determining a motive or finding a link between the Monterey Park shooting suspect and the 11 people killed in the massacre, CBS reported.
The 72-year-old suspect, Huu Can Tran, was unmarried, and authorities say they have been unable “to tie him in romantically to any of the victims so far.”
Further, detectives said that “based on statements we have,” they do not believe that Tran had been to the dance studio where Saturday’s shooting occurred at any point in the last five years.
Monterey Park shooter voiced paranoid threats to cops for years
Police say that Monterey Park mass shooting suspect Huu Can Tran had voiced paranoid threats to authorities on multiple occasions over the last thirty years.
Tran told police he believed he was being targeted by his own family, as well as the family of his ex-girlfriend and others, the Los Angeles Times first reported.
Tran was arrested in 1990, and records of his report shed light on a 30-year paranoid outlook, according to The Crime Report.
Twelve days prior to the Monterey Park shooting, Tran twice reported to police in Hemet, California, where he lived, that he believed he was being targeted by his family and alleged they had attempted to poison him.
Suspect dies in police standoff
On January 23, police found a man dead inside a white cargo van after a standoff in Torrance, California. They say the occupant of the van, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was Huu Can Tran, 72, the suspect in the Monterey Park shootings and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, CNN reported.
Man who disarmed Monterey Park shooting suspect honored with medal of courage
Brandon Tsay, 26, the man who disarmed the Monterey Park shooting suspect, was honored by the city of Alhambra and hailed as a hero as he was awarded a medal of courage from the Alhambra Police Department during a ceremony on Sunday, CNN reported. Tsay was working the ticket office of a nearby dance studio when the armed man entered and pointed a firearm at him. Tsay lunged at the suspect, hit him several times, then was able to wrench the gun away from him.
“The carnage would have been so much worse had it not been for Brandon Tsay,” California Representative Judy Chu said at the award ceremony.
