US police said the motive for the Monterey Park massacre, which killed 10 people, was jealousy as the perpetrator was looking for his wife at a dance studio in California. Enraged, Hou Kang Tran, 72, went on a violent rampage at the Star Ballroom. Dance studio in California, Monterey Park, on Sunday evening, five women and five men were killed, several people were injured and then shot dead during a clash with police.
A police source told the Los Angeles Times that there is growing evidence that it was all caused by domestic violence.
Chester Chang, president of the Los Angeles China Chamber of Commerce and leader of the Chinese community that hosts the Monterey Park party, said the perpetrator was jealous that he was not invited to the party, which was attended by his wife.
He continued on ABC 7: This hatred between wife and husband was the reason why innocent people were killed.
And the British newspaper Daily Mail reported that Tran gave dance lessons at the same studio where the crime took place in the early 2000s, where he met his wife and they soon got married, but by 2005 their marriage fell apart.
Tran reportedly fled the scene and remained at large until Monday morning, when police stopped him in the truck in which he was seen, and after many hours of confrontation, Tran died of his injuries by shooting himself.
