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 - Police tape cordons off the Star Dance Studio, the site of a mass shooting, in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. In the course of 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded.– A gunman had fired his first deadly shots outside a dance hall when Monterey Park police got a call for help from a man trying to make sense of what happened to his partner sitting in the car next to him.
Tran fled from the shooting in a white van and about 20 minutes later entered a dance hall in nearby Alhambra, where a quick-thinking employee lunged for the weapon and disarmed him after a short struggle. Tran killed himself the next morning as police surrounded his van. That man, who said he saw the gunman reloading the weapon as people ran for safety, urged a dispatcher to “send police here right away.”The dispatcher asked several times if anyone was hurt. The man said he didn't know.The man who phoned from the car reported that he and his girlfriend left the party early and someone tried to break a car window as they were leaving. He then said the window had been shot out and his girlfriend was unconscious.
He then reported she was bleeding from the head. The dispatcher assured him police and paramedics were on their way.
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