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The Denver Post
The Denver Post
National
Shelly Bradbury

Army veteran who pistol-whipped Club Q shooter with his own gun says he 'tried to finish him'

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Army veteran who stopped the active shooter at Club Q in Colorado Springs on Saturday night said he wasn’t thinking when he rushed the man, grabbed his gun and beat the shooter with it — just reacting.

“I just start whaling on this dude,” Richard Fierro told media gathered outside his home Monday evening.

Fierro was one of two people who stopped the gunman within minutes after the man entered Club Q. The first 911 calls came in at 11:57 p.m., and the shooter was subdued by the time police officers arrived. He was arrested at 12:02 a.m., police said.

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