Courageous People who have stopped Gunmen

They are the most Courageous People who stopped violent gunmen for causing another tragedy events.

Antoinette Tuff

Decatur, Georgia, August 2013

One year after the Sandy Hook Shooting

It was a ordinary day at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy. A strange man entered with a bag, Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy was working at the main office. She stayed with the gunman in the main office follows his every demands. He demands at news crew and police officers to arrive at the school building. Students and Staff were hidden in the classrooms, gyms, etc. The gunman later tells Tuff to call the police and news crew to come at the school. Tuff tries to negotiate with the gunman just so he doesn't harm the students and teachers.

911 call from Antoinette

Full Transcript of the 911 call

The gunman was identified as Michael Hill who was a former student and Tuff actually recognized him. After hours of holding the school hostage ,Hill surrenders and was arrested at the main office by the SWAT Team when they raided the office after he surrendered.

Thankfully, no one was killed or injured by Hill at the school. Tuff was hailed as hero for handling the shooter in a calm way. As for Hill, he pleaded gulity and was sentenced to 21 years in jail. The event was later told and adapted into a Lifetime television movie starred Grammy Award Winner Toni Braxton as Tuff and Trevor Morgan as Hill.

James Shaw Jr.

Nashville, Tennesse

April 22, 2018

At 3:23 a.m Travis Jeffrey Reinking, a gunman enters Waffle House in Nashville, he pulls out a AR-15 rifle shooting at the Waffle House. Four people: DeEbony Groves, Akilah Dasilva, Joe Perez, and Taurean Sanderlin were killed in the shooting. 29-year old Nashville native James Shaw Jr., an AT&T technican and a father who was at the Waffle House with a friend. He ran through the door, striking the gunman. He proceeded to wrestle the gun away, toss it over the counter and force the man out of the restaurant. His hands were severely burned from grabbing the gun’s barrel. Shaw started a Gofundme page for the fallen victims and raised $200,000.

Even the late Chadwick Boseman honors Shaw and gave him his award after he won for Best Hero Award for Black Panther at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards for being outstanding hero.

Glendon Oakley Jr.

The tragedy happened on August 3, 2019 when Glendon Oakley Jr. was off duty soldier shopping at Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas when a shooting occured at the Walmart Supercenter near the mall.The gunman identified as Patrick Wood Crusius walked into the store carrying what is believed to be a WASR-10 rifle targeting Hispanic and Latinos. A young child ran up to Oakley saying there was a shooter at the nearby Walmart. Oakley said he didn't take the boy's claims seriously at first, but knew it was real when he began to hear gunfire. He said he immediately went into combat mode and began to grab as many children as he could to get them out of harm's way.

"What I did was exactly what I was supposed to do. I understand it was heroic and I'm looked at as a hero for it, but that wasn't the reason for me," U.S. Army soldier Glendon Oakley said Sunday, before breaking down in tears. "I'm just focused on the kids that I could not [save] and the families. It hurts me. I feel like they were a part of me. I don't even know the people that died or the kids that I took with me." Oakley told ABC News

The gunman killed 23 people and injured 23 others. Oakley's tale went viral, earning him an Army Commendation Medal, however his heroic story lead him to his arrest for military desertion. Oakley was directly booked into the Belly County Jail. Miller said he believed he had since been transferred and taken into custody by Fort Bliss authorities. However, a spokesman with Fort Bliss said he was not aware that Oakley had made it back to the base camp. On April 8, 2020, Oakley was found dead at Fort Bliss leaving behind his wife.

Keanon Lowe

May 17, 2019

Angel Granados-Diaz, a Parkrose senior, walked in school carrying a shotgun. Keanon Lowe,a former football player and football coach saw the Diaz with gun. Lowe lunged for the gun, put two hands on the gun and grabs the weapon from him. Students ran away from the scene and evacuate the school building. Lowe hugged the gunman pleading with him not to do it. Lowe was praised as a hero received national and sports media attention for stopping a student with a gun. Granados-Diaz later pleaded guilty to gun charges and was sentenced to probation and was ordered mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Joshua Jones,Kendrick Castillo, and Brendan Bialy

May 7, 2019

At 1:53 pm Two students at the STEM School Highlands Ranch were carrying handguns and other weapons hidden in their guitar cases. They opened fire in two separate locations, shooting several students. When one of Three students: Joshua Jones,Kendrick Castillo, and Brendan Bialy charged the suspected shooter against a wall and disarmed them. Kendrick jumped on the shooter until he was shot in the chest and sadly lost his life. Jones pinned the shooter with his body until police arrived. He suffered gunshot wounds to his left calf and hip. Bialy was unharmed from the shooting pinned the shooter down as well. Even though Kendrick was fatally shot and killed, they were the youngest bravest heroes to stopping the gunman. Erickson and McKinney are in jail and facing charges of murder and attempted murder.

Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone

August 21, 2015

Three childhood veteran friends: Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone were on vacation traveling the train to Paris when a gunman was on the train car armed with an AKM assault rifle and equipped with 270 rounds of ammunition. Another passenger on the train tackled the gunman, but failed to stop him.

They heard a gunshot and breaking glass behind them, seeing an employee sprint down the aisle followed by a man with an automatic rifle. Stone tackled the armed suspect, and was stabbed in the neck and eyebrow and almost lost his thumb. Skarlatos took action and seized the assailant's rifle, beating him in the head with the muzzle of it until he was unconscious. They pinned him down until help arrived. Three men were hailed as heroes and were even praised by President Barack Obama. The story was told on Clint Eastwood's film The 15:17 to Paris based on their memoir. This time casting the heroes in the film instead of actors portraying as them.

These people were selfless heroes who committed such bravery action. They never worked for law enforcement but they had the courage to stop gunmen before another tragic event would happen.

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