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Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, said he “went into combat mode” when a gunman opened fire Saturday night inside an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., killing five.
In an interview with The New York Times published Monday, Fierro, who left the Army in 2013, said he was watching a drag show at Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends when the first shots rang out. He says he confronted the gunman as he saw him head toward the patio area, where patrons fled when the shooting began.
Fierro, 45, said that he ran across the room, grabbed the gunman by a handle of the body armor that he was wearing, pulled him down and jumped on top of him.
