Death toll in Monterey Park mass shooting rises to 11 as investigators search for gunman’s motive

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

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The death toll in the Monterey Park mass shooting has risen to 11 people, as investigators continue to search for the gunman’s motive. CNN has obtained never-before-seen video of the shooter and a man, Brandon Tsay, approaching him to try and wrestle the weapon away. Tsay was able to disarm the gunman and call the police. He tells Anderson Cooper he confronted the shooter because he needed to “save myself and the people inside.”

Plus, CNN National Correspondent Randi Kaye joins AC360 from Colleton County, South Carolina to give an update on the first day of the Alex Murdaugh trial. He is charged with killing his wife and younger son. Prosecutors say Murdaugh committed the murders to cover up massive financial fraud that was beginning to unravel.

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0:00.0	Tonight with video, you haven't seen before pictures of a hero taking a mass murder
0:04.5	is gone away, confronting, grappling with him and disarming someone who had just moments
0:08.6	before shot in fendally wounded 11 people at another location and was about to do the
0:13.4	same.
0:14.4	Again, Saturday night at a ballroom in Dan's studio in Alhambra, California just outside
0:18.5	Los Angeles, the Brandon Sain, his family, run.
0:22.2	The video is slowed down somewhat.
0:24.0	The man in the frame is the 72 year old mass killer who had already carried out a mass
0:28.2	shooting at another ballroom in nearby Monterey Park.
0:32.3	Now, the weapon he's carrying, according to authorities, is a 9 mm Ingram Mac 10 semi-automatic
0:38.7	with what appears to be a suppressor or silencer which authorities say he'd been making at home.
0:44.6	Brandon Sainte tells us he heard sounds, metal on metal noises, and you can see the shooter
0:49.6	pulling back on the weapon.
0:51.9	And then for a few seconds, he withdraws into the doorway as if to look around at which
0:57.3	point seconds later, he sees Brandon there entering and confronting the man.
1:01.6	His arms outstretched, reaching for the man and then the weapon.
1:05.1	The struggle then moves into the doorway and just outside that room.
1:08.9	We're just seeing this for the first time.
1:10.5	You've never seen this video before.
1:12.3	Brandon will describe in a moment just what was happening, what he was doing and thinking
1:16.6	in the seconds that we see and what we don't see.
1:19.6	Again, the killer has a Mac 10, apparently a suppressor and stock.
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