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Emma Bowman

Brandon Tsay wants to use his celebrity to help heal his community

Brandon Tsay is awarded the medal of courage by Alhambra Police Chief Kelley Fraser at the Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival in Alhambra, Calif., on Sunday, a little over a week after the Monterey Park mass shooting. (Jane Hahn for NPR)

ALHAMBRA, Calif. — At a Lunar New Year festival this past weekend, a couple hundred people packed under a tent to watch local leaders recognize Brandon Tsay. The 26-year-old has become an overnight national hero after disarming a mass shooter more than a week ago in the east Los Angeles County community.

Tsay has been widely praised for preventing a gunman, who had killed 11 people and injured 10 others at a dance hall in Monterey Park, from carrying out a second attack in nearby Alhambra.

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