“He might start shooting again,” a man said in a panicked voice to the 911 dispatcher.
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.Audio from the 911 recordings released Thursday provides a sense of the confusion and chaos that unfolded Jan. 21 at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on a night that had been full ofPolice said Huu Can Tran, 72, a onetime fixture at the ballroom who told people he was a dance instructor, .
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.Brandon Tsay disarmed the shooter following the massacre.In the course of just over three minutes, Monterey Park police dispatchers fielded three 911 calls.
He did not identify the woman, but Mymy Nhan, 65, was identified as the only person shot in the parking lot.“My, can you talk to me?” the caller pleaded. “No, she cannot talk.”“Oh, no,” the man said. “Maybe she die. I’m not sure.”He then reported she was bleeding from the head. The dispatcher assured him police and paramedics were on their way.
Five minutes into the call, a police dispatcher, who had remained on the line after connecting the caller with the fire department, asked what kind of car the man was in and told him to wave down officers for help.Previous
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