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US residents of ‘very safe’ Monterey Park stunned by mass shooting

US residents of ‘very safe’ Monterey Park stunned by mass shooting

MONTEREY PARK: The “Year of the Rabbit” began in horror on Sunday for the inhabitants of Monterey Park, the largely Asian American suburb of Los Angeles where a mass shooting left 10 people dead.In this city of 60,000 people, red lanterns and banners in Chinese characters celebrating the Lunar New Year still fluttered over a roadway.But around the dance hall where the shooting unfolded, yellow police tape and heavily armed policemen supplanted any sign of festivities.“This kind of thing doesn’t happen here,“ said Wynn Liaw, a neighbor who came to this popular senior citizens’ venue after hearing news bulletins.Liaw, a 57-year-old retired veterinarian, has lived the past four decades in Monterey Park.She still finds it hard to believe that a massacre unfolded here, behind the white-and-green awning of the venue she passes daily to do her shopping.“This is a very safe neighborhood, where I can walk alone at night and where I don’t have to worry about gun violence,“ she told AFP as police

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