It all felt “pretty insane”, he said, adding that he “never thought I would be here in this position”. Grabbed the guy by the neck and everybody just started beating on the guy while Spencer held the choke hold until he went unconscious.
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Speaking with CNN, Alek’s brother, Peter Skarlatos said Spencer was cut in the head and neck and nearly had his thumb cut off, but Alek had taken control of the rifle and hit the suspect in the head with the muzzle.
She said they “demonstrated the very best of America in their selfless actions”.
Paris – A heavily-armed gunman overpowered by passengers on a crowded train is “dumbfounded” by allegations of terrorism and denies any shot was fired, his lawyer said in comments broadcast on Sunday.
“Don’t just stand by”, he added, saying that in times of terror, one should “please do something”.
‘The three of us beat up the guy, in the process Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away.
But the attack was quickly stopped when two off-duty US servicemen and their friend Anthony Sadler, a student, charged the gunman and restrained him. “It’s kind of insane”. “Alek was pretty much like, make sure he gets the credit he deserves because, if it wasn’t for him, things could have ended a lot differently”, he said. “The dominant feeling [is] relief that he wasn’t hurt or killed”. “It could have been real carnage”.
Mobile phone footage from inside the train and played on several TV stations shows the suspect, a skinny man wearing white pants and no shirt, flattened on the floor of the train with his hands and feet tied behind his back.
According to the Associated Press, one man was shot with a handgun.
Anthony said the other had a throat wound and Spencer, who has paramedic training, tended to him despite his own injuries.
A spokesman for Belgium’s federal prosecutor identified the man as El-Kahzani.
The man Chris Norman says this was his motivation.
“He’d see me taking groceries out of my trunk, and he’s come over and help me bring them in my house without being asked”, said 87-year-old Rosemary Campbell, a longtime neighbor of the Stone family in Carmichael.
On Friday, President Obama praised the “courage and quick thinking” of the passengers, echoing remarks by Cazeneuve.
They, along with Mr Norman, have received bravery medals from the local mayor after the attack on the train, which had more than 500 passengers on board.
French President Francois Hollande is to present the Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honour tomorrow. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said earlier Saturday that Spanish authorities had alerted French intelligence to him in February 2014 because he “belonged to the radical Islamist movement”, and the French put him on a security watch list.
Authorities in France, Belgium and Spain, where he once lived, are investigating the case. We feel grateful is everyone is alive and Spencer is doing okay in the hospital and that everyone is – can off that train and go to their homes and meet their families.
She is no longer his lawyer as Khazzani has since been transferred to Levallois-Perret near Paris where he is being questioned by counter terrorism officers.
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He claims he found the bag of weapons, including the rifle and around 200 rounds of ammunition, in a park in Brussels.
