Three Americans Praised for Stopping Gunman on Paris-Bound Train
Three Americans are receiving high praise after they helped stop a gunman while on board a high-speed train headed from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, Aug. 21.
Childhood friends Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guard Specialist Alek Skarlatos, and Airman First Class Spencer Stone — along with a British man named Chris Norman — charged at the alleged gunman after he came out of a bathroom armed with an AK-47, automatic pistol, nine magazines of ammunition, and a box cutter, according to Le Monde.
“My friend Alek yells, ‘Get him!’ So my friend Spencer immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself,” Sadler, a college senior, told CNN of the events.
“The three of us beat up the guy. In the process, Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away,” he continued.
“Everybody just started beating the guy while Spencer held the chokehold until he went unconscious,” Skarlatos told Sky News.
Stone suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and has undergone successful surgery on his hand, officials told NBC News.
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