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Train employee ran past us at a full sprint. going towards the noise or away. away from the noise to the front of the train. you guys went towards it. he went way? well, yeah. i mean at that point spencer woke up. and we both looked behind us and saw a guy entering our car with an ak 47 looking like he was trying to work the action or something like that. so we both ducked down immediately. and i just told spencer let s go, go get him. and spencer was the first one up. i got up about two or three seconds behind spencer, because i actually didn t even know he left until i saw him running in front of me. i m like oh, i better get going. so, spencer got to him first, tackled the guy. i guess he dropped his ak 47 around that time and it s all kind of a blink. and we beat up on him a little bit. anthony got some blows in for sure. spencer got the choke in on the guy. then he pulled out a ....
I m i don t know what to say. it is such an inspiration to me though, and my family. he gez off to europe on his first trip to europe with friend and he comes back with france s highest award and he s athwarted an act of terrorism on a train. is there any way to top that? i don t think there is, greta. i think he hit the sky with this one. how did you hear about this terrorism and when did you first learn your brother was one. heros? i found out kind of scattered without all of the information. it was traumatic for me. i found out early friday morning, i got a call from family member who is good friends with the mothers of spencer and alek. she kept asking, he is in europe with spencer and alek and he just kept saying, yes, yes. she said, we haven t gotten a ....
Through the neck. and his wife brought it to our attention. i told spencer. spencer immediately started running over to him, started performing first aid on him. just held down the artery. at that point i took the ak 47 and went back to check the other train cars, to make sure there was no other shooter or anything like that. i told the other passengers just to keep everybody in the car where they were and don t let anybody to come up front. then i came back. the terrorist was already tied up. chris did a good job there spencer was still working on mark. i made sure he didn t need anything else. we just got some first aid kits like that. i checked mark, to make sure he wasn t didn t have any other gunshot wounds. i cut him cut his shirt off with the box cut canner, the terrorist was stabbing spencer with and from there we pretty much just rode the rest of the train out until it got to our stop. what was going on in the ....
I m not going to do this. i m doing this trip, if you want to come you are already in portugal so why not. anthony said well, i haven t seen you guys in a while so let s do this so we all did. the idea was to meet up and travel around on a train. it turned out very differently, didn t it? oh, yeah. much differently than you expected. yeah. what can you do? okay. so, take me to that the day that this whole thing unfolded. what time do you board the train, about? boarded the train at 3:17 p.m. local time. and you were headed to paris? yes. what time were you supposed to get there about? it was around 6:35. if i remember correctly. so what happened? did you hear something? well, spencer and anthony were asleep. i heard a gunshot and breaking glass was the first thing that i heard. i didn t realize it was a gunshot at the time. i thought maybe somebody just dropped something or broke a window or something like that. i didn t realize what was going on really until ....
I haven t heard about anything involving him since. the terrorist, the guy with the ak 47. was he saying anything at any time at least until in the very beginning? no. he said nothing at all. i didn t hear him say a word, honestly. but obviously was this the box cutter and he heard spencer. he put up a good fight but i mean when he got three or four guys that are all bigger than you, you don t stand a chance really. why do you think you ran towards him? i must admit that i fear that i would have run away. actually, i was afraid of that, too. i have i was afraid that if something like this happened i would sit there apiss my pants or something. when he came in, i knew we had to do something. spencer was on the aisle seat. i was on the window seat and i said let s go. and spencer had to be the first one to get up. he didn t hesitate at all. he got up and just ran straight at the guy while the guy was trying to get his ak working to shoot him, ....