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A desperate daughter is still hoping to find her mother who has not been seen since a gunman opened fire in a California dance studio on Saturday night, killing ten people.

Juno Blees said her father Jeff Liu was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after he and his wife Nancy went to the Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park to celebrate Lunar New Year.

Mr Liu, 62, who was released from hospital yesterday, saw his wife, 63, collapse shortly after the attacker, Huu Can Tran, stormed into the crowded room and started firing indiscriminately.

The family is still hoping she was taken to hospital without her ID card and they will be reunited.

But she admitted: 'We are mentally preparing for the worst.' 

Writing on Twitter, Ms Blees, a game producer, said: 'My dad got wounded and my mom is still missing. I don’t know what to think or say.'

She later added: 'An update: My dad was discharged from the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds but we still haven’t found my mom. 

'The last time my dad saw her was at the scene when she collapsed. They were separated in the panic and were taken to different hospitals.'

Mr Liu described the gunman opening fire at a ticket seller at a booth inside the studio and he immediately jumped to the ground.

But then two bullets grazed Mr Liu's shoulder and back, causing minor injuries, and he lost sight of his wife after she fell to the floor.

Ms Blees told the New York Times: 'He bled a lot, but the doctors said it was non-life threatening.'

Another witness named Grace recalled the moment the gunman entered, saying: 'No one dared to flee — we all got down to the ground, hiding wherever we could.'

She said a man called Ma laoban, 'Boss Ma', was next to the entrance and appeared to be the first person shot.

Two people beside him then collapsed after five or six shots rang out, she said.

After the shooter ran out of bullets, he quickly left and came back to unleash a second volley of gunfire.

Bodies lined the wooden floor while others ducked under tables or ran into adjacent rooms during the five-minute bloodbath, she said.

Dance instructor Alejandro Delatorre, 40, worked at the venue last year and returned to the crime scene early on Sunday morning. 

He said: 'That place is always packed, man.'

Wong Wei, who lives near the studio, declined to go to the studio on Saturday but his sister and three friends were there.

One of his friends was injured and was lying on the ground with her face covered in blood, he told the LA Times.

Mr Wei still does not know if his friend has survived the shooting or if she was hospitalized.

As Monterey Park continues to reel from the massacre, it comes as: 

The gunman, Huu Can Tran, 72, used to work as an instructor at the studio and was remembered as being hostile toward his students and quick to get angry with his ex-wife. 

He died on Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with police ending a manhunt that unfolded the night before.

Sources indicated the gunman was hunting for his current wife and the motive for the attack was a domestic dispute.

Tran gave dance lessons at the studio in the early 2000s, where he met his first wife. The pair quickly tied the knot, but their marriage had crumbled by 2005. 

A source told LA Mag: 'There is increasing evidence this was domestic violence.'

Chester Chong, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and a community leader in Monterey Park, said the suspect may have been jealous about not being invited to a party his wife attended, saying: 'This hate is because of wife and husband. I believe because of that there was the killing of innocent people.'

The ex-wife, who didn't want her identity revealed, told CNN that Tran became easily angered when she messed up on choreography and she felt as if he had lost interest in her. 

Another person who was close to Tran told CNN that the man was 'hostile to a lot of people' at the studio where he taught and believed they said 'evil things about him.'

Tran was identified as the gunman who slaughtered 10 people and injured several others late Saturday night amid Lunar New Years celebrations in the predominantly Asian American community of Monterey Park. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Sunday that a motive for the attack is still unclear.

'He intended to kill more people,' Luna said in a news conference on Sunday night, adding that it was the patrons of the second dance studio who stopped the rampage from getting worse. 'They saved lives. This could've been much worse,' he said.

The mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. Seven people remained hospitalized Sunday.

The former dance instructor, who is an immigrant from China, taught lessons at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio almost every night in the early 2000s when he lived five minutes away in the San Gabriel Valley.

Those who knew Tran and recall him being hostile to his students also told CNN that he was easily irritated,

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