Emergency calls to the Monterey Park police after a dance hall shooting that killed 11 people and wounded nine reveal the confusion and chaos in the first moments the shots rang out
FILE - A man visits a memorial outside Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Police dispatch calls released Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, from the night of the Monterey Park dance hall shooting that killed 11 people and wounded nine reveal the confusion and chaos in the first moments the shots rang out.
Huu Can Tran, 72, a onetime fixture at the ballroom who told people he was dance instructor, killed 11 people and wounded nine with a submachine gun-style semiautomatic handgun, police said. He killed himself as police surrounded his van the next morning. The 911 calls overlap as several people phoned for help around the same time and dispatchers can be heard speaking with others about a shooting.
Another caller reported seeing a gunman reload his weapon in the dance hall. A third caller from outside the club urges the police to come quickly.The dispatcher asks several times if anyone is hurt. The man says he doesn’t know because “it happened too fast.” At first, he said he thought the sound of gunshots was from a firecracker.
The man who phoned from the car initially reported only that someone tried to break a car window and then said it had been shot. He begins to wonder if his girlfriend is alive as he reports that she's unconscious and a dispatcher asks if she’s breathing.The man calls her by name and reports that she can't speak.“Oh, no,” the man said. “Maybe she died. I’m not sure.”Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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