2023-01-23 16:12:45
Hero tackles Monterey Park shooter preventing further tragedy
BBC
By Chloe Kim
BBC News, Washington
The 26-year-old man credited with disarming the California shooting suspect had never seen a real gun before.
Late on Saturday evening, working at his family-run dance hall in Alhambra, Brandon Tsay found himself staring at one pointed directly at him.
"My heart sank, I knew I was going to die," Mr Tsay told the New York Times.
He did not know the suspect was believed to have killed 10 people just minutes earlier at another dance hall.
Mr Tsay lunged at the gunman and eventually disarmed him, averting another tragedy.
The gunman, identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a van, according to law enforcement officials.
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