Anthony Sadler Jr. And 2 Others Helps Stop Gun Carrying Terrorist On Train In Europe

Anthony Sadler Jr. And 2 Others Helps Stop Gun Carrying Terrorist On Train In Europe

A Black college student from Rancho Cordova, California, was on a high-speed train in Belgium when a terrorist attacked 3 people before he and his friends were able to stop him…

Via CNN:

They grew up together, fought off an attacker together and accepted a nation’s honor together.

Three days after they pounced and subdued a gunman aboard a packed train, American childhood friends Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos got the Legion of Honor — France’s highest recognition.

Fellow British passenger Chris Norman, who helped tackle the gunman, also received the award during Monday’s ceremony at the Élysée Palace. “By their courage, they saved lives,” President François Hollande said. “They gave us an example of what is possible to do in these kinds of situations.”

The four stopped a potential massacre Friday aboard the high-speed train headed from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Paris.

“Three Americans and one Englishman … you risked your lives to defend an ideal, the ideal of liberty and freedom,” Hollande said.

Another passenger — a French national who has not gone public — also confronted the gunman and will be honored at a later date.

Napoleon Bonaparte established the Legion of Honor in 1802 to recognize exceptional leaders and unusual achievements.

The four were in the same train car when gunfire erupted. Shortly afterward, a shirtless man appeared with a gun slung over his shoulder.

“He never said a word,” said Sadler, a student at California State University in Sacramento. “At that time, it was either do something or die.”

They charged at the gunman, and a fierce struggle ensued.

“He kept pulling more weapons left and right,” Stone said, his arm in a sling from injuries suffered in the struggle. “He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end. So were we.”

They punched the suspect, choked him and hit him with his own weapons. They finally restrained him before the train pulled up in Arras in northern France.

The confrontation left Stone, a U.S. Air Force member who tackled the attacker first, with wounds in the head, hand and neck. He was hospitalized and released.

“It is clear that their heroic actions may have prevented a far worse tragedy,” President Barack Obama said.

Not all heroes wear capes!!!