The owners of Step2Dance dance studio in Mira Mesa used to teach at the Star Ballroom, where the shooting happened Saturday night.
The tragedy in Monterey Park hits home for a pair of dance studio owners here in San Diego. They used to teach at the Star Ballroom in Monterey Park where the shooting happened. KPBS’ Alexander Nguyen has that part of the story.They used to teach at the Star Ballroom dance studio in the mostly Asian-populated city east of Los Angeles, where a gunman shot 20 people during a Lunar New Year's Eve celebration Saturday night. Eleven people died.
The manager of the Star Ballroom, Ming Wei Ma, was one of the victims. Tarasov says the dance community is still shaken by the shooting.Terry Tang and Jamie Stengle/ The Associated Press Tarasov’s partner Olga Ginzburg was judging the California Chic Classic dance competition in Orange County on Saturday night. The Star Ballroom’s owner, Maria Liang, and her teachers were at the competition with their students, and so were not at the Star Ballroom when the shooting happened.“I was really in shock, because I could not understand, and I could not believe that this is actually happening," she said."And I feel so bad for the teachers, for the students, for the owners.
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