1 Man Who Disarmed Mass Shooter May Have Prevented Second Shooting
The man who disarmed the shooter in the Monterey Park mass shooting likely prevented another shooting from happening. Brandon Tsay has spoken to GMA’s Robin Roberts about the incident, saying something just came over him as he saw a firearm. Tsay, who helps run the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra, CA says he heard the door close in the lobby during the Lunar New Year party and heard the sound of metal clinking together. That’s when Tsay saw 72-year-old Huu Can Tran there with a gun. Tsay says he lunged at the man trying to wrestle the gun away, while getting hit in the back of the head. Once Tsay got ahold of the gun, he started shouting at the man to "Get the hell out of here.” Tsay says the guy stood there for a moment before running jogging back to his van. Tran then took the lives of 11 people and wounded 10 others at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Law enforcement surrounded his van Sunday in Torrance, where police later confirmed he died by suicide inside.
2 Another Shooting In California Has Killed Seven People
Police say seven people are dead after two separate shooting incidents in Northern California. Authorities say the elderly suspect, 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, turned himself in and is cooperating. They also want Half Moon Bay residents to know that there is no ongoing threat to the community. At the site of the first shooting, police discovered four dead victims and another who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Shortly thereafter, three more victims were found at a second scene. Authorities located the suspect in a vehicle at a local police station with a semi-automatic handgun inside the car and was detained without incident. A motive is currently unknown.
3 Senate Announces Witness List For Today's Ticketmaster Hearings
The witness list has been announced for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Panel today. The hearings are investigating problems consumers have had with Ticketmaster, with the disastrous situation that unfolded when sales of tickets for Taylor Swift's upcoming concert crashed the company's website, leaving fans unable to buy tickets. This list of witnesses U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Mike Lee (R-Ut.) are calling include: Joe Berchtold, President and CFO, Live Nation Entertainment (which owns Ticketmaster) Jack Groetzinger, CEO, SeatGeek (a New York-based ticketing platform and Ticketmaster competitor, which recently lost a seven-year contract with Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to Ticketmaster after just a year Jerry Mickelson, CEO and President, JAM Productions (a Chicago-based concert promoter, founded in 1972) Sal Nuzzo, Senior Vice President, The James Madison Institute (a Florida-based free-market think tank) Kathleen Bradish, Vice President for Legal Advocacy, American Antitrust Institute (a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that aims to promote competition for the benefit of “consumers, businesses, and society”) Clyde Lawrence, singer-songwriter for the band Lawrence” says he looks forward to “exercising our Subcommittee’s oversight authority to ensure that anticompetitive mergers an exclusionary conduct are not crippling an entertainment industry already struggling to recover from pandemic lockdowns.” According to written testimony released yesterday, Berchtold will say that Ticketmaster learned "valuable lessons" from the debacle and that the sale was disrupted by a record amount of bot traffic.