The man who disarmed the Monterey Park mass shooter is set to receive a special honor for his actions.
"That's when I turned around and saw that there was an Asian man holding a gun. My first thought was I was going to die here, this is it," Tsay told ABC News' Robin Roberts during an interview Monday on "Good Morning America."
Tsay, who helps run the dance hall with his family, said the gunman was "looking around the room" as if he was "looking for targets -- people to harm." "He started prepping the weapon and something came over me," Tsay recalled. "I realized I needed to get the weapon away from him. I needed to take this weapon, disarm him or else everybody would have died."
Tsay says he had no idea that minutes earlier, Tran had opened fire inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, killing 11 people and injuring several others.ABC News contributed to this report.
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