'I needed to save my family': Man describes stopping Club Q shooter
Published Date: 11/22/2022
Source: WCNC
An Army veteran being hailed as a hero after stopping a gunman at Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night wants people to remember not his actions, but the five lives lost. Richard Fierro and Thomas James stopped the gunman and prevented him from injuring more people, Colorado Springs Police Department Chief Adrian Vasquez said. Speaking outside his home Monday, Fierro said he and his family were at the club to watch his daughter's junior prom date perform when a man "came in shooting." Fierro, an Army veteran who served three tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, said his reflexes kicked in. "I just know that I got into mode and I needed to save my family," Fierro said. "And that family was, at that time, everybody in that room. And that’s what I was trained to do. I saw him and I went and got him." Fierro said he took the man's pistol and hit him with it. "Pulled the dude down, pinned him against his side, and just started – I think he went for his pistol? I don’t know, either way, I grabbed the pistol from him," Fierro said. "And then I told the guy, move the AR. The kid in front of me, he was at his head. I said, ‘Move the AR. Get the AR away from him.’ And the kid did it. And then I started wailing on this dude. And I’m on top of him. I’m a big dude, man, and this guy was bigger. And I just kept wailing on him." #WakeUpCLT #ClubQ #LGBTQ READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/club-q-lgbt-shooting-colorado-update-charlote-native-wounded/275-20b649ce-01cf-4adf-b702-86a70f86feca