A local official was hailed as a “true hero” after tackling a gunman who opened fire at a town supervisors meeting Monday night in Pennsylvania, killing at least three people and wounding several more.
Eyewitnesses told local newspaper The Pocono Record that Bernie Kozen, executive director of the township’s West End Open Space Commission, tackled the gunman and turned his own weapon on him.
“I saw Bernie struggling with him. Bernie got the gun and shot him in the leg twice,” Ross Township Supervisor Tina Drake told the paper.
Kozen told the paper that he was assisting another man who had been shot when the shooter “walked by me into the meeting room, I guess to shoot more people.”
“That’s when I came up behind him and wrestled the gun from him,” with the help of another man, Kozen told the newspaper.
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