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How a Lunar New Year celebration became a fight for survival

LOS ANGELES — The four smiling women pose before a festive backdrop, with its outsize clinking champagne glasses and clock about to strike midnight. They wear red, a symbol of good luck.

Los Angeles Times

Daughter of slain Monterey Park dance hall manager plans to carry on his legacy

LOS ANGELES — Mary Ma holds three lit incense sticks in front of the almost life-size photo of her father displayed outside Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park.

Los Angeles Times

Dancing again at studio targeted by Monterey Park gunman: ‘Don’t be afraid. Don’t be intimidated’

ALHAMBRA, Calif. — Lucy Wong was not sure at first whether it was safe to go back to Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra.

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Doting aunt, dance-loving mother, ‘Mr Nice’: community mourns Monterey Park shooting victims

Family accounts tell an interwoven story about the hope of starting afresh in a new country and shared joy

The Guardian - US

‘Doesn’t feel real’: Loved ones mourn 11 victims killed in Lunar New Year massacre at dance studio

LOS ANGELES — They were the lifeblood of the Star Ballroom Dance Studio.

Los Angeles Times

Here's what we know about the Monterey Park shooting victims

The families of the 11 people who died in the attack at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio are sharing memories of their loved ones.

WEKU

For older Asian American immigrants, ballroom dancing was supposed to be a safe haven

LOS ANGELES — When a gunman fatally shot 11 people and wounded nine others in Monterey Park over the weekend, it was more than just the latest tragedy in America’s horrific mass-shooting epidemic.

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At least 18 dead in 3 days after mass shootings in California devastate 2 communities

The shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, two towns just hundreds of miles apart in California, share devastating similarities.

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Grandparents, dancers, community builders: All 11 killed in Monterey Park shooting identified

LOS ANGELES — Diana Tom was out dancing with friends Saturday night, ringing in the Lunar New Year at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, when the celebration was tragically cut short.

Los Angeles Times

California shooting: Tributes to ‘bright light’ dance hall manager killed in Monterey Park attack

Ming Wei Ma, 72, has been named among the 11 to have died

Evening Standard

'Always smiling': Man who managed ballroom among those slain

For those who made their way to the Star Ballroom over the years, Ming Wei Ma was a bright light, always smiling and encouraging those who came to the Los Angeles area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans

The Independent UK

Monterey Park shooting victims named after 11 brutally gunned down in massacre

The 11 people brutally gunned down at a dancehall in Monterey Park, California, US, have been named. Many of the victims had gathered to celebrate Lunar New Year as part of a long-running community of dancers

Daily Mirror

First Thing: seven dead in another California mass shooting in Half Moon Bay

Authorities respond to calls at two locations in second shooting in California in days, following Monterey Park killings. Plus, uproar over Kylie Jenner’s fake lion head at Paris fashion week

The Guardian - UK

‘It perpetuates fear’: Monterey Park shooting compounds trauma in Asian American communities

The tragedy revived fears, anxiety and trauma of the last three years of the pandemic, which saw a surge in anti-Asian hate

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Footage captures terrifying moment heroic coder, 26, wrestles gun from Monterey Park mass shooter

Bystander’s brave actions prevented a second deadly attack from unfolding at the second ballroom studio

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Monterey Park shooting suspect was regular at studio and claimed instructors said ‘evil things’ about him

Huu Can Tran was ‘hostile to a lot of people’ at the club and met his former wife there, according to people who knew him

The Independent UK

Monterey Park mass shooting: First victim identified as owner of ballroom club who died trying to stop gunman

Friends of Ming Wei Ma say he was the first to rush towards suspected gunman Huu Can Tran when he began opening fire inside the club

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