Monterey Park Chief Scott Wiese defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying he didn't have enough information to effectively alert residents.
The Monterey Park shooting victims underwent emergency surgery at LAC+USC Medical Center. In the video above, some of the doctors involved talked about dealing with multiple gun shot victims. "The whole team feels extremely distressed when you see a death, especially when you spend hours and hours in the operating room and then you lose the patient.
Huu Can Tran, 72, who was said to frequent the dance hall and fancied himself as an instructor, carried out the shooting with a submachine gun-style semi-automatic weapon with large capacity magazine, authorities said. Wiese, who had been sworn in as chief two days before Saturday's shooting, said he quickly learned about the second incident at the Lai Lai Ballroom but it wasn't immediately clear the two were connected.
"When we started putting out public information, the priority was to get this person into custody," Luna said Monday. His department, which is handling the investigation, hasn't released information about the shooting since Monday. Outside the locked gates of Star Dance Studio, a popular venue for older Asian Americans, a memorial grew higher Wednesday with mounds of bouquets and balloons.
"This is the place where we go out to eat," said Ryan Yamada, who was with his 74-year-old mother. "We can't just pretend this is some other people's problem."
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