Democratic lawmakers blamed ethnic bigotry as the motivation behind Saturday night’s mass shooting at a Los Angeles dance club before authorities released information about the suspect.
Law enforcement, however, Sunday, named a 72-year-old Asian man as the gunman in the Saturday night shooting that left 10 people dead on the eve of the Lunar New Year, a major celebration in Asian-American communities.
Gunman Huu Can Tran was found dead in a van that had been surrounded by police Sunday, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a Sunday night press conference that “we still are not clear on the motive.