A Navy sailor who was one of two men credited with ending a deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November grabbed the barrel of the gunman’s rifle, blistering his hand because it was so hot, a police detective testified Wednesday.
As panicked patrons fled from the dance floor at Club Q, Petty Officer Second Class Thomas James tumbled off a landing with the 22-year-old gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich. James, whose hand had been burned from grabbing the hot barrel of the rifle, then struggled with Aldrich over a handgun.
After being shot, it is clear from the video that James was tiring, “but he continues to do what he can to subdue the suspect until police arrive,” Gardner testified, noting that James later gave up his spot in an ambulance to someone else who was injured.As James was grappling with Aldrich, Army veteran Richard Fierro rushed over to help, grabbing the rifle and throwing it, Gardner said. Fiorro then used the handgun to beat Aldrich, telling officers, “I kept hitting him until you came.
Aldrich, who is nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, shook during the testimony about those they shot. Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Aldrich cried while being led out of court for the lunch break. James, who issued a statement days after the attack saying he “simply wanted to save the family that I found,” didn’t appear to be at Wednesday’s hearing. Fierro, who sustained scrapes and bruises, sat in the back row. His daughter’s boyfriend
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