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Taylor Weik

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

People pay tribute to the victims of the Monterey Park  mass shooting at a candlelight vigil.
People pay tribute to the victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting at a candlelight vigil. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Along with dancing, Muoi Dai Ung loved eating and gambling – and sometimes, according to her family, she tried to do all three at once.

At a candlelight vigil held by the city of Monterey Park on Tuesday night, city councilmember Thomas Wong shared a statement written by Ung’s family, which likened Ung to her community: “complicated, messy, easy to love and sometimes hard to understand from the outside”.

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