The ex-wife of a suspected gunman who killed 10 people and injured 10 others in a mass shooting at a California dance studio has provided details about her ex-husband’s life when news broke. Rumors swirled about his motives that might have made him act.
The ex-wife talked to CNN and requested anonymity, said the pair met at the same dance studio he filmed on Saturday night. Tran Huu Can filed for divorce from her in 2005, this divorce was officially a year later.
Her account has been verified by her sister, who also spoke to CNN. The Daily Beast has reached out to his ex-wife for comment.
Before shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Tran, a 72-year-old Chinese immigrant, was a regular, even offering “informal” lessons at the venue. It is not yet clear whether he has visited in recent years.
Two decades ago, the two met at a dance, where Tran introduced himself and offered to teach her for free. They married soon after. He’s not violent, she said, though he “gets angry very easily.”
This manifests itself in many different ways, including when they are dancing. If she took one wrong step, he would explode sometimes, she said.
Tran’s relationship with the disco is also supported by a “longtime acquaintance”, who also wishes to remain anonymous, who told CNN he would drive five minutes to the disco “almost every night”. “. The friend is said to have been Tran’s best friend from the late 2000s to the early 2010s.
They painted a picture of Tran a little harsher than his ex-wife, describing how he was “hostile towards many people” at the dance studio and that he believed other instructors said “bad things about him”.
The ballroom’s claims were also verified by Adam Hood, a former tenant of the suspect, who told The Daily Beast that although he “didn’t have many friends… he liked it.” dance in the ballroom, at Star Dance Studio and Lai Lai Studio.”
Hood describes Tran as “a lone ranger.”
Tran’s ex-wife also describes him as a truck driver at times.
Documents obtained by The Daily Beast show that he owned a company starting in 2002 called “Tran’s Trucking, Inc”—although by August 20, 2004, Tran had dissolved the business. .
Tran wrote that the joint venture was “completely terminated” and “never incurred any known debt or liability”.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
On Sunday night, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed Tran as a suspect in Monterey Park batch shooting. He was found in a white van with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a parking lot in Torrance, California, at 12:52 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said they were still trying to determine the motive behind “this extremely tragic event”.
Police Chief Robert Luna said: “We still don’t know the motive… and that’s something we all desperately… we want to know. We wanted to know how this terrible thing could have happened.”
Sheriff Luna said seven victims remained hospitalized as of Sunday night.
