THE HEROES WHO ALLEGEDLY TOOK DOWN A GUNMAN (NBC San Diego)
Brendan L. O'Rourke is accused of firing at Kelly Elementary School students and grazing two girls with bullets
Dressed in black, carrying a 357 magnum, pockets full of ammunition and a gas can, a man walked onto a playground at Kelly Elementary School and emptied his gun into a crowd of children, according to witnesses. The bullets grazed the arms of two little girls, aged 6 and 7. Miraculously no one was killed, thanks, in part, to the heroic actions of several men.
Steven Kane, Mario Contreras and Carlos Partida were working in a construction area Friday when they heard shots and kids screaming. They ran around the building and saw a gunman, who police later identified as Brendan L. O'Rourke, 41, firing rounds as children ran for their lives.
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Kane and Contreras chased the suspect over the playground fence. Partida jumped into his own vehicle and drove to where the suspect had parked. "I hit him with my truck," Partida said. He knocked the suspect to the ground and the others held him down.
A fourth good Samaritan, Scott Chandler, was repairing a Jet Ski in his driveway when he heard two loud bangs and saw children running and screaming….Chandler, a professional surfer, approached the crowd after realizing the workers were pinning down the man.“He took a pretty good beating. I think the construction guys were wearing steel towed boots,” Chandler said.
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