Man Who Disarmed Waffle House Gunman Speaks Out: ‘I Grabbed It From Him’
"I kinda made up my mind. … that if it was gonna come down to it, he was gonna have to work to kill me." 29-year-old James Shaw Jr. describes the moment he disarmed a gunman who killed 4 at a Nashville-area Waffle House. https://t.co/cwMFw86oNQ https://t.co/SSFe61WIN6
— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2018
The Waffle House gunman who left four dead and four more injured is still at large, but there was someone at the scene who stepped up and disarmed him, and he’s being hailed as a hero.
29-year-old James Shaw Jr. told The Tennessean, “I was just trying to get myself out. I saw the opportunity and pretty much took it.”
Shaw, who has a four-year-old daughter, was injured in the shooting:
James Shaw Jr., 29, is credited with saving numerous lives Sunday morning after he disarmed a man who opened fire on a Tennessee Waffle House. https://t.co/eTiIABjrqh pic.twitter.com/d34irk85Wq
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) April 22, 2018
But he spoke at the police press conference this afternoon to expand on what he witnessed at the scene, saying he decided “if it was going to come down to it, he was going to have to work to kill me.”
“At the time that he was either reloading or the gun jammed or whatever happened,” Shaw said, “is when I ran through the swivel door, I hit him with the swivel door, and then the gun was kind of jammed up and it was pushed down, so we were scuffling. I managed to get him with one hand on the gun and then I grabbed it from him and I threw it over the countertop.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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