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Brandon Tsay

As is my Sunday custom, today I pay tribute to someone who is a hero. Today’s honoree is Brandon Tsay.

From BlazeNews:

72-year-old Huu Can Tran allegedly killed 11 people and injured several others on Saturday evening, 1/21/23, at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, where Asian-Americans and others were celebrating the Lunar New Year Festival.

Twenty minutes after committing the first massacre, the shooter visited a second location just two miles north: the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, where 

26-year-old California man, Brandon Tsay, looked down the barrel of a mass shooter’s gun. Despite a presumption that he would die, he ensured that the innocents in his family’s dance hall would not suffer the same fate as the 11 people the gunman had just slain at a nearby ballroom.

Brandon Tsay was standing by the ticket office and watching the remaining people on the Lai Lai dance floor run out the last 30 minutes before closing time when the shooter ambled in.

“He was looking at me and looking around, not hiding that he was trying to do harm. His eyes were menacing,” Tsay recounted to the New York Times. “From his body language, his facial expression, his eyes, he was looking for people.”

For a fleeting moment, Tsay reportedly froze. He reckoned, “I’m going to die. This is it. This is the end for me.”

“But then something happened,” Tsay said. “Something came over me.”

The young man decided to rewrite his ending on the fly.

Tsay reportedly lunged toward the gunman in hopes of disarming him.

The battle over the modified pistol reportedly lasted for nearly a minute, but Tsay suggested it felt like “way longer.”

In newly released footage of the melee, Tsay can be seen grabbing the barrel of the weapon and then finally besting the gunman, despite catching repeated punches to the head and upper body.

Tom Tsay, the hero’s father, told the Times, “He’s lucky, someone was watching over him.”

Sheriff Luna said during a press conference, “I’d like to take a second to also thank Mr. Brandon Tsay for his heroic action, which saved countless lives. … He’s the hero who disarmed the suspect at the Alhambra location and in my opinion saved many lives.”

Luna emphasized, “What a brave man he is.”

I agree, Brandon Tsay is a true hero.

1/29/23

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