Thank God for the Americans who were there. Yesterday they were wrongly identified as Marines by media. Spencer Stone is a U.S. Airman, Alek Skarlatos was in the Oregon National Guard, just back from Afghanistan, and Anthony Sadler was a student friend traveling with them. Above is Sadler and Skarlatos, below is Stone, who was injured.
Paris (AFP) – A gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said.
“Everything happened very fast,” Anthony Sadler, a student travelling with friends Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, both members of the US military, told France’s BFMTV.
“I didn’t realise what was happening until I saw a guard run past. I looked back and saw a guy enter with a Kalashnikov. My friends and I got down and then I said ‘Let’s get him’,” said Skarlatos, a 22-year-old member of the National Guard in Oregon, who has recently returned from service in Afghanistan.
“We didn’t know if the gun wasn’t working or anything like that. Spencer just ran anyway and if anyone had gotten shot, it would have been Spencer and we’re just very lucky that nobody got killed,” he added in quotes shown on the BBC.
Despite being stabbed, Spencer Stone still managed to help save the life of another passenger who was bleeding after he was shot.
