According to WDSU-TV, a reward of $12,500 is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of Euric Cain. Cain was wanted on charges of armed robbery, second-degree kidnapping and attempted first-degree murder. Police urged the public to help identify the shooter, who police said should be considered armed and risky.
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The surveillance video shows he fiddled with the weapon and tried to shoot Gold two more times, but the gun still would not fire. After Gold intervened, the man pulls a gun on Gold and shoots him after he told the gunman didn’t have any money.
Chief Harrison said: ‘There’s no greater selfless act than to stop and help someone perhaps who you don’t know, for reasons you don’t know’.
“There’s only so far you can go to run and hide with the US marshals and federal, state and local officials out there”, Stevens said. “We will catch them, and bring them to justice”.
As he lies on the floor, the gunman is seen repeatedly pointing the gun at Mr Gold’s head, attempting to shoot him again.
The mugger drove away in a grey or silver four-wheel-drive with the woman’s purse, police said. The woman in the video was released with minor injuries.
The man fired one shot into Gold’s stomach.
Michele Adams, who taught Gold while he was an undergraduate sociology student, said that she was shocked to hear of the news but was not surprised that Gold would risk his own safety for someone else.
A medical student who stopped an apparent kidnapping is in ‘guarded condition, ‘ sources say.
Fitts said Tulane is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the suspect.
Fitts also said on Friday that Gold is expected to make a full recovery, according to ABC News.
Police said Gold thought the woman was being abducted.
A Tulane medical student was shot after trying to save a woman from an attacker.
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Gold is a fourth-year medical student of the Tulane Medical School.
