Gunman Kills 10 People at Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration Near Los Angeles UPDATE

Last night, a gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in a mass shooting at a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California near Los Angeles. 

When I first read the story my initial thought was that this could have been an anti-Asian hate crime along the lines of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings which occurred when I lived there in March 2021. 

However, authorities have indicated the suspect is Asian. In which case one wonders if there is tension between different Asian communities (i.e. Japanese vs. Korean). Of course, it is entirely possible this person just wanted to kill people for the sake of killing people.

At this point, the suspect is still at large. Until the suspect is apprehended (preferably alive) we won't know the motivations much less know if the weapon or weapons in questions were obtain legally or not.

All we do know for now is that 10 innocent people are dead. 

UPDATE: The gunman evidently set his sights on another dance hall in neighboring Alhambra, but two people thwarted him. Authorities subsequently arrived on the scene and the gunman barricaded himself before taking his own life. The gunman has been identified as a 72-year old Asian man named Huu Can Tran. 

While we might come to learn how he obtained his weapons we will probably never know what made him take the lives of 10 innocent people before taking his own.