{"id":562461,"date":"2023-01-23T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=562461"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T16:25:48","slug":"monterey-park-mass-shooting-breaks-promise-of-lunar-new-year-for-asian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/monterey-park-mass-shooting-breaks-promise-of-lunar-new-year-for-asian-americans","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Park mass shooting breaks promise of Lunar New Year for Asian Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lunar New Year always brings promise. As Asians and Asian Americans, we gather to celebrate the promise of prosperity, the promise of friendship, the promise of happiness. Then, Saturday night, as thousands of Asian Americans nationwide gathered with loved ones, that promise was once again broken. Instead of the sound of firecrackers set to scare away evil spirits, families celebrating in Monterey Park, California,&nbsp;heard gun shots . Ten families are grieving a loss of their loved ones; another 10&nbsp;hope for the recovery of their family members. And a whole community, anticipating joyous celebration, is now plunged back into fear. Motive of gunman not known On Sunday,&nbsp;Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the gunman as&nbsp;Huu Can Tran, 72. Tran&#8217;s&nbsp;white van was spotted in Torrance, about 22 miles from the mass shooting. &#8220;Our sheriff&#8217;s SWAT team approached and cleared the van and determined the suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene ,&#8221; Luna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar New Year brings the promise of prosperity, friendship and happiness. But as thousands of Asian Americans celebrated, a gunman broke the promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}