An Army Veteran Says He Went Into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Gunman
When the shooting started, Mr. Fierro said, he hit the floor, pulling a friend down with him. As bullets sprayed, he saw the gunman move through the bar toward a door leading to a patio where dozens of bar patrons had fled. Mr. Fierro, who served in the Army for 15 years, said he raced across the room, grabbed the gunman by a handle on the back of his body armor, pulled him to the floor and jumped on top of him.
“Was he shooting at the time? Was he about to shoot? I don’t know,” Mr. Fierro said. “I just knew I had to take him down.”
The gunman, who Mr. Fierro estimated weighed more than 300 pounds, sprawled onto the floor, his military-style rifle landing just out of reach. Mr. Fierro started to go for the rifle, but then saw that the gunman had a pistol as well.
“I grabbed the gun out of his hand and just started hitting him in the head, over and over,” Mr. Fierro said.
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As the fight continued, he said, he yelled for other club patrons to help him. A man grabbed the rifle and moved it away to safety. A drag dancer stomped on the gunman with her high heels. The whole time, Mr. Fierro said, he kept pummeling the shooter’s head while the two men screamed obscenities at each other.
When police arrived a few minutes later, the gunman was no longer struggling, Mr. Fierro said, and he feared that he had killed him. The suspect in the shooting was taken into custody and remained hospitalized on Monday afternoon.
Mr. Fierro said he was covered in blood when the police arrived, and officers tackled him and put him in handcuffs. He said he was held in a police car for more than an hour, and screamed and pleaded to be let go so that he could see what had happened to his family.
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6 wowsI remember mass layoffs in finance where you come back from lunch at its roulette whose badge still worked to get in the door. Cold blooded shit.
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6 wowsTwitter firing half the workforce today 9AM PST, employees will know whether they're fired based on whether they get a personal email (fired, lose access) or work email (not fired)
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6 wowsLiving in a tiny NYC apartment for $650/month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyjuB_y0GM
Could you guys realistically live in this apartment? I think I would go out of my mind. I kind of feel sorry for the dog who is confined to such a small area. And that drooping water-damaged ceiling is an immediate NOPE for me.
Toward the end of the video they show another person who is paying slightly more for a much more spacious apartment. His situation is MUCH more tolerable.
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6 wowsOzzie Mejia posted a new article, <a target="_blank" href="/article/132801/tiktok-news-adults-under-30">One-quarter of U.S. adults under 30 get their news from TikTok</a>
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6 wowsHotline Miami released ten years ago today.
Celebrations forthcoming. https://twitter.com/HotlineMiami/status/1584212035923243008/video/1
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6 wowsVantage wrote a thing!<br /> <br />Read more: <a href="https://www.shacknews.com/cortex/article/2191/the-battle-of-the-best-fps-games-why-unreal-tournament-is-better-than-quake-3-arena" target="_blank">The Battle of the Best FPS Games: Why Unreal Tournament is Better Than Quake 3 Arena</a>
