Brandon Tsay fought “the fight of his life” against Huu Can Tran, who killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in this Los Angeles County town.
UNITED STATES – The American media calls him a ‘hero’. A 26-year-old man who managed to disarm the gunman who killed ten people and injured ten others at a California dance hall on Saturday night said Monday, January 23, that he “believed he was going to die.” .
The man, identified as Brandon Tsay, was at the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in the city of Alhambra – a different ballroom from the one where the carnage took place – on Saturday night when the gunman entered the busy venue, which is mostly frequented by Asians and himself was pointed a gun at him. “My heart stopped, I knew I was going to die,” he told the New York Times, “at that moment it was the instinct to survive” that took over.
Brandon Tsay said he lunged at the man and grabbed the barrel of the gun and began what he described as the “fight of his life”.
“He wasn’t there to rob us”
The young computer developer, whose grandparents founded the dance hall, was unaware that the gunman, identified by police as Huu Can Tran, killed ten people and injured ten others ten minutes earlier at another facility in a nearby Monterey Park neighborhood would have.
CCTV footage released by ABC on Monday shows Brandon Tsay wrestling with the beanie-wearing gunman, the weapon indistinguishable in close quarters combat. The young employee finally managed to grab it and immediately aimed it at the shooter, shouting, “Go away, get out of here,” he told the media.
He told ABC he was convinced the man didn’t come to rob but to kill. “He wasn’t there to rob us. As he looked around the room. It looked like he was looking for people to attack,” said Brandon Tsay.
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The 72-year-old Asian gunman died Sunday in Torrance, about 28 miles from Monterey Park, where the shooting took place, after being surrounded by police. On Monday, investigators were still looking for a motive for the shooting.
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