Monterey Park was the nation’s first Asian-majority city. Now its history includes a grimmer development: a mass killing.
The man who carried out the Saturday night shooting has been identified as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old old man of Asian descent. He was found dead on Sunday behind the wheel of a white van, and his motive remains unclear. But in the cool winter light of day, this city of about 60,000 people has turned sharply from a venue for celebration to one of grief, from suburban calm to frightening revelation.
“Now that’s shattered,” Ching said. “I’ve never even seen a fricking gun in Monterey Park, and it’s here.” Within sight of the dance hall stood the ceremonial entrance to the festival’s tented booths. A sign atop the makeshift gateway wished all a “Happy Year of the Rabbit.” “I’m in grief, in shock,” he said. “I’m still trying to process, and we’re all struggling to make sense of something so senseless.”
John Horton, author of “The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California.”Four decades ago, the scholar Timothy Fong began researching how Chinese migration to the city was stirring tensions among the White and Latino residents.
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