Moment Hero Disarmed Monterey Shooter Caught on Video
Surveillance images that capture the moment a good Samaritan acts bravely are amazing tackled California dance club mass shooter Huu Can Tran — grabbing his semi-automatic assault pistol even though he was certain he was about to die.
Brandon Tsay (26 years old) was seen arguing with the 72-years-old shooter when he burst into Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio. shooting dead 10 people and injuring There were many more at the Monterey Park Dance Hall late Saturday.
The computer programmer told “Good Morning America” Monday that he thought nothing of hearing the ballroom door closing — until it was “instantly followed by the sound of a metal object clinking together.”
“That’s when I turned around and saw that there was an Asian man holding a gun,” he said of the terrifying scene in his family’s ballroom.
“My first thought was I was gonna die here. This was it,” He told the story “GMA.”
Tsay — who’d never before seen a gun — said it was immediately clear that the gunman “wasn’t here to rob us.”
“When he was looking around the room, it seemed like he was looking for targets. People to harm,” The story of the hero bystander “GMA,” Remember the mass shooter? “started prepping his weapon.” He also told the New York Times that the man’s “eyes were menacing.”
“Something came over me — I realized I needed to get the weapon away from him,” He told the morning program, which shared surveillance photos of his heroic battle that authorities have said he had. “saved lives.”
He was aware of his abilities. “needed to take this weapon [and] disarm him or else everybody would have died,” He said.
“When I got the courage, I lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle” He stated that he was trying to control the gun.
“He was hitting me across the face, especially in the back of my head. I was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance,” He was able to recall his heroic caught-on camera tussle.
“Finally at one point I was able to pull the gun away from him,” Tsay said — with the surveillance images showing him as he grabbed hold of the terrifying-looking pistol.
“That moment, it was primal instinct,” He told the Times. “I don’t know what came over me.”
He was then able to “point the gun at him” And he shouted: “Get the hell out here! I’ll shoot! Get away! Go!”
“I thought he would run away but he was just standing there contemplating whether to fight or to run away. I really thought I would have to shoot him,” Tsay spoke on the ABC News morning program.
“This is when he turned around and walked out the door [and] jogged back to the van,” He said this about the gunman who was later killed. shot himself dead While being surrounded and escorted by cops
“I immediately called police with the gun still in my hand,” He said.
Sheriff Robert Luna from Los Angeles County confirmed that the killer had been disarmed at the second stage by heroes. “saved lives.”
“This could have been much worse,” The sheriff replied.
He said that two people were watching, but he later changed his mind. “GMA” Tsay was seen alone in footage.
“It was just my son. He could have died,” Tom Tsay, his father, shared the story with The Times. “He’s lucky, someone was watching over him.”
Tsay stated that he was left behind with “bruising all over my body” “shaking all night” with shock — but realizing he was lucky to be alive.
“A lot of people have been telling me how much courage I had,” He told the story “GMA.”
“But you know what courage is — courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to have adversity to fear when fearful events happen, such as this.
“And crises like this, the people need courage — especially the victims, their friends, their families. My heart goes out to everybody involved,” He said.
“I hope they can find the courage and the strength to persevere.”
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