When veteran Richard Fierro tackled the gunman who killed five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs, he says he wanted to protect 'everybody in that room.' 'That's what I was trained to do. I saw him and I went and got him.'
said he wanted to protect the close knit community inside the room.
“I just know I got into mode, and I needed to save my family — and my family was at that time everybody in that room,” he said in a news conference outside his home on Monday. “I didn’t ask for this,” he said, adding he was there to watch his daughter’s junior prom date perform. “I’m not a hero, I’m just some dude,” he said.
“I have never encountered a person who had engaged in such heroic actions who was so humble about it,” Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said of Fierro during a news conference Monday. “He simply said to me, ‘I was trying to protect my family.’”
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