'I realized that life is fragile,' Brandon Tsay said at a Lunar New Year event, where he was awarded a medal of courage by the city of Alhambra
The city decided to move forward with the Lunar New Year celebration on Sunday, awarding 26-year-old Tsay with a medal of courage from the Alhambra Police Department during the opening ceremony on Sunday. “The carnage would have been so much worse had it not been for Brandon Tsay,”“I realized that life is fragile.
at the event Sunday. Despite the devastation, Tsay said he hoped the victims’ families would be able to “heal” from the tragedy. “I pray for them to be able to find joy again,” he added.Surveillance video of the night of the shooting shows Tsay single-handedly wrestling a firearm from the shooter.
On Sunday in Alhambra, Tsay was received by a standing ovation, with some of the more than 20,000 attendees holding posters in support. “Brandon Tsay is our hero,”Becki Pang, center, cheers for Brandon Tsay, 26, after he was awarded a medal of courage from the Alhambra Police Department during a ceremony at the the Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival on Jan. 29, 2023 in Alhambra, Calif.Tsay last week to thank him for taking “incredible action in the face of danger.
“You are America, pal. You are who we are,” Biden said on the call. “America’s never backed down, we’ve always stepped up, because of people like you.” Tsay will be President Biden’s guest at the upcoming State of the Union address on Feb. 7. In the midst of much praise, Tsay said he was also still processing the grief and pain that forced him to take such heroic actions. “Most of the victims I knew personally,” Tsay revealed at the award ceremony. “They’d always come by the dance studio and I considered them friends. They were some of the most caring people I have ever met. And, for them to be taken from us is such an excruciating experience.
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