Nikon Lou was the first to call 911 during the Monterey Park mass shooting. Lou raced out of the dance studio’s side exit while the gunman was reloading. Before Lou reached the bottom of the wheelchair ramp, he heard the shooting start again.
Accounts from witnesses inside Star Ballroom Dance Studio paint a clearer view of what happened when a man walked into the Monterey Park studio armed with a semiautomatic pistol., L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said no one has yet recalled Tran visiting the studio anytime during the last five years or having a personal link to any of the victims.
The caller in the car first dialed 911 at 10:21 p.m. to report that someone had shot something at the window as they were trying to leave the party early. The Fire Department dispatcher asked whether the caller’s girlfriend was awake and could talk to him.The dispatcher asked whether he could see blood, and at first the caller said no.The caller was quiet and slow to respond.In another 911 call, at 10:22 p.m., Nikon Lou warned that the shooter was “reloading.” Lou had raced out of the studio’s side exit. He said the shooting had started two minutes earlier.“I don’t know,” he said.
Three people had run into the restaurant and pleaded with the restaurant owner, Seung Won Choi, to lock the door. There was a man with a gun, they said. The shooter had multiple rounds of ammunition. Tran’s next stop was Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra. There, Brandon Tsay, whose family owns the studio, wrested the gun from the shooter’s hands.
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