There's five people that didn't go home.
And this guy, I told him while I was eating and
I said I'm gonna kill you man because you tried to kill my friends.
My family was in there.
This whole thing was a lot.
My daughter and wife should have never experienced combat in Colorado Springs and
everybody in that building experienced combat that night, not to their own
accord, but because they were forced you, it's a lot for any human, man.
This kid that was helping me was kicking another human in the head and
I told him to do it.
>> We are learning more about Richard Fierro,
who is the army vet who actually ran toward the Club Q nightclub shooter
in Colorado Springs, which led to the shooter being subdued and
also prevented more individuals from being shot and killed by the gunman.
Now, Fierro was assisted by one other person who he referred to in
that clip you just watched, that individual,
a young man proceeded to kick the shooter in an effort to help subdue
him before he could cause more damage and murder more people.
Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez and Mayor John Suthers,
for of course Colorado Springs, named to patrons,
they said had subdued the gunman, Fierro and a second man, Thomas James.
Now, at some point Thomas James, according to Fiero,
became tired from hitting the gunman to subdue him and
there was a drag performer who was kind of running by and
Fierro had asked the drag performer to assist and so she did so
and after that ran away because of course, she was terrified, as she should be.
Military records confirmed that Fierro served as an Army field artillery
officer from 1999 to 2013, deploying three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.
He rose to the rank of major before leaving the service,
according to Sgt Pablo Saez, an Army spokesman.
Fierro received numerous awards for his service, notably a Combat Action Badge and
two Bronze Stars.
Since then, he has started a brewing company,
a beer brewing company with his wife and also works at Northrop grow.
Now Pyro went to club que to celebrate a friend's birthday with his family.
His daughter also has a best friend who was a drag performer that night,
unfortunately, we also learned from Fiero that while he succeeded in stopping
the shooter from murdering more people.
He didn't succeed in preventing the shooter from killing his own daughter's
boyfriend.
So it's difficult to, to watch and hear just how torn up he is,
especially considering the wonderful act that he didn't and and and the courage and
bravery he showed in subduing this, the shooter.
But I want to, I want you to hear more from, from him and
what he experienced that night, Let's watch.
I ran across the room grabbed the handle, pulled him down and then started to
well actually I think I went for his gun with him, His rifle flew in front of him.
And the young man that tried to jump in there with me
he we both either pulled him down or whatever, but he ended up at his head.
And right next to the A.
R.
And then with the A.
R.
He we I told him pushed the A.
R. Get the away from him.
The kid pushed the A.
R. I don't know what his name was.
And then I proceeded to take his other weapon the pistol and
then just start hitting him where I could, but the armor is in the way.
And I just started, I found a crease in between his armor and his head and
I just started wailing away with his gun.
And then I told the kid in front of me kick him, keep kicking him.
So that was thomas James that he's referring to there who was assisting in
subduing the shooter junk.
Okay, so there's amazing details and one more amazing video coming up.
So first an update on the story, it turns out Richard got it wrong,
it was not a drag performer that had done the kicking.
It was a trans woman who happened to be at the club as well.
Excuse me.
And so now to his heroism, it's it's unbelievable and I love this guy,
true american hero as everybody's understandably running away.
He runs straight to the government.
Okay. First he actually gets down and
he brings to his friends that were with him, He gets them to go down.
Unfortunately they were shot.
Okay.
So they did not pass away.
But as anna told you his daughter's boyfriend passed away.
They were all there and
I had speculated yesterday the person who attacked him was probably in the L.
G. B. T. Q.
Community turns out Richard isn't although the other two that were assisted him
were as far as we know.
And so but they were there because his daughter's best friend was performing and
so and and almost every comment coming out of the club and
the area is this is our community, this is the L.
G. B. T. Q.
Community. Here is part of our community.
So you're attacking all of us right?
And so I love that attitude.
And so one of the people in the bar was Brianna Renee and
she said about Richard, I saw him there, I danced with them.
He saved my life.
Thank you for your bravery.
Imagine that you're dancing next to somebody next year.
The government comes in and that guy tackles him and saves your life, right?
He authorities say he might have saved dozens of lives because the guy was
heavily armed and he tackled him in the middle of his shooting spree.
That is unbelievable and everything and he's so humble and he's and
he's like look I feel bad that we're kicking this guy right?
I'm telling people to kick the guy in the head.
And and so the trans woman comes by, she does it etcetera.
But he's like and he's like I'm gonna pull of blood and I hated every part of this.
But I had to get him under control so I can go check on my friends because they
had been shot and then he gets the friends together and
he has them hold hands until they come get rescued.
Yeah. He talks about that in this next video and
this is in my opinion, one of the harder videos to watch because he gets so
emotional.
And he begins by talking about how he couldn't save his daughter's
boyfriend who by the way was 22 year old Raymond Green vance.
So let's take a quick look at that.
I got to protect my my kid.
I lost my kids boyfriend.
I tried I tried to have everybody in there.
I still feel bad That there's five people.
There's five people that didn't come home.
As soon as I got done with that guy and the cop came in.
I went across the room and started first aid with my with my friend who
was shot in the in the chest and the legs and the arms And I told her Joanne
stayed with me looked me in the eyes stay with me and I moved her head so
she wouldn't see her because he was shocked and chip was right there.
Her husband was reaching for her so I put her hand in his hands so
that they could be together.
I didn't know if they were gonna make it.
Yeah I mean I can't even imagine going through that.
I can't imagine having the courage that this man had to run toward
a shooter as everyone else is running away.
He absolutely saved lives.
He did something incredibly brave.
And what really stood out to me john to your point is not only
the fact that he's so incredibly humble after he saved lives,
but also how he's torn up about the fact that he was urging others
to kick the shooter to help him subdue the shooter.
So on one hand he says I got to protect my family, I got to protect people,
which I completely agree with him on that, but he still feels guilt in causing
physical pain to the shooter which I'll tell you something right now.
I personally would not have those torn up feelings.
No, I I'm not even close, I wouldn't either.
And and I love that that guy who came to shoot up an LGBT Bar got kicked
in the face by a trans woman in heels.
And so I hope he feels that one to the end of his days.
So by the way he said at one point kick and move the a r move they are because
he's trying to make sure that the guy doesn't grab, get back in control of
the air because he's got the still it's just pinned against the ground.
And so he's desperately trying to make sure the guy doesn't kill anyone else.
By the way, I'm gonna give a random shout out here before he gets to tell you about
awful people.
The reaction here has been unbelievable.
By the right wing the beer company that he co owns with his
wife is a Trevena beer Otra Vida beer.
Go order some online.
Okay? I don't know how you do it but do it so
I love this guy.