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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Nathan Solis and Alexandra E. Petri

‘I was gonna die here’: How a man disarmed the Monterey Park shooter

The dance social at Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio was nearly over Saturday night, with just a few people left on the ballroom floor. Brandon Tsay, whose family owns the Alhambra studio and who works at the ticket office, was in the lobby looking into the studio when he heard the front door close, followed by the sound of metal clinking, he said.

“That’s when I turned around and saw there was an Asian man holding a gun,” Tsay told ABC’s "Good Morning America." “My first thought was I was gonna die here. This was it.”

Tsay said the man appeared to be looking around the room “for targets” and “people to harm.”

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