“He grew up very fast overnight,” Brenda Tsay said of her brother Brandon, who stopped a second mass shooting after the Jan. 21 Monterey Park tragedy.
Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the gunman minutes after the Monterey Park mass shooting, is welcomed to Monterey Park City Council meeting on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 where he received certificates of appreciation.
Months later, the difficult memories are still fresh for Tsay and the community all around him. But from the ashes of a real-life nightmare, the quiet kid who always put others’ needs over his own has found renewed purpose.“I’ve been able to reach out to many other individuals who I’ve never thought I’d be connecting with, and they’ve been reaching out to me,” he said. “You know, each one is a surprise, each one is unique. It’s an opportunity each time in different fields.
Brandon Tsay, 26, stands as President Joe Biden acknowledges him at his 2023 State of the Union speech on Feb. 7, 2023. Asian dance community“Through my platform, I’ve been able to talk about a lot of Asian community struggles,” he said. “So I’m hoping that with these talks, we will be able to bring awareness to our representation in government to see what we could do about it.”
He is trying to do “the most good for the most amount of people”, by shining a light on social injustice issues, especially those faced by the AAPI group, Brenda said.Her brother has always put other people’s needs and priorities before his own, Brenda Tsay said. And when their mother died in 2017, just 15 days before Brenda had her first child, Brandon took up the family business and kept it running while Brenda started her family and had babies, she said.
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