Mark Moogalian and wife were seated facing each other on the high-speed train when she saw only his expression and the urgent “Get out, this is serious”. His website says he’s a artist, teacher and musician and recently published a novel.
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Moogalian is still recovering at a local hospital, but his family said he is expected to make a full recovery.
During the struggle over the rifle, the suspect shot Moogalian in the neck with a Luger.
Moogalian, who lives in Paris but is originally from Midlothian, Virginia, in the United States, is the previously unnamed man who came to the aid of “Damien A”, 28, a French banker who confronted El-Khazzani. “There was blood everywhere”, she said. “It’s my older brother, it’s the way he’s always lived, and the way he’s always been”.
Moogalian has dual citizenship and has been living in France for nearly two decades, Julia Moogalian said.
While security officials claim the 26-year-old was sympathetic to ISIS, his lawyer said he was trying to rob the train, not commit a terror attack.
The Americans, who reportedly met in middle school in California, planned on spending the summer sightseeing together. Stone is an Air Force serviceman.
The three men, plus Norman, were in the same train vehicle when gunfire erupted. Shortly afterward, a shirtless man appeared with a gun slung over his shoulder. Then, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian stated, she ducked behind some seats as he lunged to seize the assault rifle from the gunman’s palms. “At that time, it was either do something or die”.
Coons said she didn’t see the struggle of the gunman being taken down, but he could hear “yelling and moans and groans and grunts… and the man who fell was moaning as well, in pain”. It is reported that he may have lost some of the functionality of his left arm as a result of the attack. “He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end”.
They punched the suspect, choked him and hit him with his own weapons. PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images Police inspect a crime scene inside a Thalys train of French national railway operator SNCF at the main train station in Arras, northern France.
“He should not be alive at all, and he saved every single person’s life on that train….” The attacker started jabbing at Stone with a box cutter and all three friends began punching and hitting him to subdue him. He was hospitalized and released.
“It is clear that their heroic actions may have prevented a far worse tragedy”, President Barack Obama said.
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“I just want to give him a hug”, Greg said.
