The Monterey Park mass shooting has only sharpened residents' feelings about what makes the tight-knit community so special, and worth protecting.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna provided new details on the investigation into the Monterey Park mass shooting that left 11 people dead.For decades, Monterey Park has been a haven for Asian immigrants seeking to maintain a strong cultural identity - and a culinary heaven worth visiting for anybody near Los Angeles craving authentic Asian cuisine.
That sense of peace was shattered after a gunman killed 11 people in their 50s, 60s and 70s and wounded nine others last Saturday during a Lunar New Year celebration at the Star Dance Ballroom. But while residents of the tight-knit community work through the trauma - just as they did during the coronavirus pandemic, when anti-Asian sentiment rose nationwide - the tragedy has only sharpened their feelings about what makes Monterey Park so special, and worth protecting.
When Hiseh died in 1999, Monterey Park had at the time become the only U.S. city with an Asian-majority population, with 65% Asian residents, according to an Associated Press obituary. Today, nearly 70% of the residents are Asian, mostly of Chinese descent. For the 36-year-old Mu, the regular customers at Mandarin Noodle House are one reason he can't see himself leaving Monterey Park.
Kevin Mok, owner of Mr Obanyaki ice cream shop, near the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, eats noodles at Mandarin Noodle House on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Monterey Park."In the Asian American community across the country, seniors have kept ballroom dancing alive," said Hayes, who is white. Kevin Mok, 32 and of Chinese descent, runs Japanese dessert shop Mr. Obanyaki with his parents and brother. Since the shooting, he said he still feels "there's a sense of fear in this community," because there are less people on the streets.
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