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British grandfather Chris Norman describes how he helped overpower gunman
2015-08-25
[Guardian] Norman noticed three young American friends leap up. "I heard one of the Americans say: 'Go get him Spence.' The other one said: 'No, you don't do that, buddy.'

"I thought great, somebody's actually intervening, let me stand up because we've got much more chance as a team. Let's go!"

Two of the Americans were off-duty soldiers on holiday in Europe. One, Spencer Stone, held the gunman, 25-year-old Moroccan, Ayoub El-Khazzani, in a choke-hold, while the other, Alek Skarlatos, first took away the Kalashnikov, then a pistol that the gunman had pulled on him.

"I just pounced on the gunman's arm so that he couldn't actually use it, and I held his arm to the ground," Norman said. "We all held him until he stopped struggling."
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