Patricia Maisch Hailed as One of the Heroes Who
Stopped Tucson Slaughter
Patricia Maisch looks like a grandmother, but she
is being hailed as a hero today for helping to stop
alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner by
wrestling away a fresh magazine of bullets as he
tried to reload.
Maisch, 61, effectively disarmed the shooter as
several men pounced on him and threw him to
ground. As they struggled to hold him down,
Maisch joined the scrum on the ground, clinging
to the gunman's ankles.
Maisch and her fellow heroes -- identified as Bill
Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie --
stopped the carnage after 20 people were shot,
including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people died.
"[I] knew right away it was a gun... I heard a
continuation of shots," Maisch told a news
conference today.
Maisch, who has a crown of snow-white hair,
was standing towards the back of the line to greet
and snap a photo with Giffords at the "Congress
in Your Corner" event at a Safeway grocery store.
Speaking to the press today, Maisch recalled how
she stopped Loughner as he tried to reload his
Glock 9 mm weapon.
"I could see him coming. [He] shot the lady next
to me," Maisch said.
As he was shooting, she said, she was expecting
to be hit and she wondered what it would feel
like.
There was "lots of blood and confusion," she
said.
She considered trying to run away, she said, but
thought that would make her more of a target, so
she laid down on the ground. But then
something unexpected happened.
"Then he was next to me on the ground," she
said. "The gentleman knocked him down.
"I kneeled over him. He was pulling a magazine
[to reload] and I grabbed the magazine and
secured that. I think the men got the gun, and I
was able to get the magazine," she said.
Maisch said Badger and Sulzgeber both sat on the
gunman while she held his ankles down. Police
said that Zimudie helped by hanging on to
Loughner's legs.
Sulzgeber was reportedly standing with his wife,
third in line to meet with Giffords, while Zimudie
was in the nearby Walgreens and came running
out once he heard the shooting.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/patricia-maisch-describes-stopping-gunman-reloading/story?id=12577933
Stopped Tucson Slaughter
Patricia Maisch looks like a grandmother, but she
is being hailed as a hero today for helping to stop
alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner by
wrestling away a fresh magazine of bullets as he
tried to reload.
Maisch, 61, effectively disarmed the shooter as
several men pounced on him and threw him to
ground. As they struggled to hold him down,
Maisch joined the scrum on the ground, clinging
to the gunman's ankles.
Maisch and her fellow heroes -- identified as Bill
Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie --
stopped the carnage after 20 people were shot,
including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people died.
"[I] knew right away it was a gun... I heard a
continuation of shots," Maisch told a news
conference today.
Maisch, who has a crown of snow-white hair,
was standing towards the back of the line to greet
and snap a photo with Giffords at the "Congress
in Your Corner" event at a Safeway grocery store.
Speaking to the press today, Maisch recalled how
she stopped Loughner as he tried to reload his
Glock 9 mm weapon.
"I could see him coming. [He] shot the lady next
to me," Maisch said.
As he was shooting, she said, she was expecting
to be hit and she wondered what it would feel
like.
There was "lots of blood and confusion," she
said.
She considered trying to run away, she said, but
thought that would make her more of a target, so
she laid down on the ground. But then
something unexpected happened.
"Then he was next to me on the ground," she
said. "The gentleman knocked him down.
"I kneeled over him. He was pulling a magazine
[to reload] and I grabbed the magazine and
secured that. I think the men got the gun, and I
was able to get the magazine," she said.
Maisch said Badger and Sulzgeber both sat on the
gunman while she held his ankles down. Police
said that Zimudie helped by hanging on to
Loughner's legs.
Sulzgeber was reportedly standing with his wife,
third in line to meet with Giffords, while Zimudie
was in the nearby Walgreens and came running
out once he heard the shooting.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/patricia-maisch-describes-stopping-gunman-reloading/story?id=12577933
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