Who's Brandon Tsay? Man who disarmed Monterey Park shooter -

Minutes after he had already killed 10 folks and injured at the very least 10 extra on the first dance corridor, the gunman appeared intent on capturing extra folks, in keeping with the person who has been hailed as a hero for disarming the Monterey Park shooter at a second dance corridor within the neighbouring metropolis of Alhambra.

“He didn’t look like he was right here for any cash. He wasn’t right here to rob us. When he was wanting across the room, it appeared like he was in search of targets, folks to hurt,” Brandon Tsay, 26, stated of the shooter in an interview Monday with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Tsay claimed that by the point the shooter bought at Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, which is positioned roughly two miles to the north of Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, the place he had earlier carried out his murderous assault, most patrons had already fled.

In line with The New York Occasions, Tsay, a pc programmer, works a couple of nights every week on the dance membership because the third technology of his household to run it.

Tsay couldn’t be reached for remark straight away, and NBC Information has not independently confirmed his account.

Requests for remark from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Division weren’t promptly fulfilled.

When Tsay “heard the sound of the doorway door groaning closing and immediately adopted by the sound of a metallic object clinking collectively as in the event that they have been rubbing,” he informed “Good Morning America,” the dance corridor was holding a “social dance get together” for the Lunar New 12 months.

Tsay informed ABC that the shooter, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, was “somebody I had by no means seen earlier than” and that he didn’t recognise him.

“That’s once I rotated and noticed that there was an Asian man holding a gun. My first ideas was, I used to be going to die right here,” he stated.

“From his physique language, his facial features, his eyes, he was in search of folks,” Tsay informed The New York Occasions.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna stated Sunday the weapon recovered on the Alhambra dance corridor was a “semi-automatic assault pistol” with an prolonged large-capacity journal connected.

Tsay informed the Occasions he had by no means seen a gun earlier than however might inform this one was notably lethal.

When he noticed it, “one thing came to visit me,” he stated on “Good Morning America.”

“I noticed I wanted to get the weapon away from him. I wanted to take this weapon, disarm him, or else everyone would have died.”

Tsay stated he lunged on the shooter “with each my palms” earlier than he grabbed the weapon and the pair fought for management of it. The battle was captured in surveillance pictures obtained by ABC.

“We struggled into the foyer, attempting to get this gun away from one another,” Tsay informed the community. “He was hitting me throughout the face, bashing the again of my head. I used to be attempting to make use of my elbows to separate the gun away from him, creating a ways.”

Tsay informed the Occasions that he snatched the rifle simply because the shooter appeared down at it and eliminated one hand from it, maybe on the brink of fireplace.

Tsay informed ABC that after he had the gun in his palms, he needed to threaten to shoot the person to be able to get him to go away. He stated, “Lastly, at one level, I used to be capable of pull the gun away from him, shove him apart, create a ways, level the gun at him, intimidate him, shout at him and say, ‘Get the hell out right here. I’ll fireplace! Step apart. Go!’ And at this second, I had assumed he would flee, however as a substitute, he was simply standing there debating whether or not to have interaction in fight or flee. I genuinely believed I might have

Tsay claimed that the shooter turned and ran again to his white van whereas nonetheless holding the pistol, including that he “instantly contacted police.”

The shooter was finally discovered useless on Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a 30-mile-long manhunt. Luna informed reporters on Sunday night time that the rationale for the dance corridor assault remains to be a thriller.

Tsay claimed that he was in shock following the incident and that when he awoke on Monday, he had bruises on the again of his head and the facet of his face.

In line with him, he hopes the Monterey Park neighbourhood and the victims “could discover the bravery and the energy to persevere.”