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(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY Monday's tragic events could have been much worse if it weren?t for a special customer inside a fast food restaurant.
Eric Fullerton may look small but he?s got a big heart and apparently some big muscles.
?I didn?t have time to think about being scared,? said Fullerton. ?I wrestled the gun from him. I took the gun from him.?
When Curtis Allgier jumped out of a Ford Explorer and into the Arby?s at 1700 south and Redwood Road Eric Fullerton didn?t flinch.
He didn?t know police suspected Allgier of killing a corrections officer.
He just knew he wasn?t going to let him kill anybody else.
?I just instinctively did what needed to be done. He was going to kill that guy, and I wasn?t going to let him kill him,? says Fullerton.
?Everybody?s calling me a hero,? Fullerton said. ?I?m not a hero; I just did what I had to do.?
The suspect, Curtis Allgier, is about three times bigger than Fullerton and he had a gun and a knife.
In fact Allgier actually cut Fullerton?s throat but that didn?t stop this Vietnam veteran from ending a deadly day.
?I can?t tell you how I did it or what I did,? Fullerton said. ?I don?t know if it was adrenaline or if I had a guardian angel watching over me. I have no idea.?
He says, ?I?m just glad the other guys alive and everybody got out safe.?
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. ? Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.
He immediately grabbed the person's wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.
"I guess he thought I was an easy mark," Barnes, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.
He's anything but an easy mark: Barnes served in the Marines, was an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer and retired after 20 years as an iron worker.
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Pretty schweet. The guy from Utah I believe was formerly in the Airborne division.
Dang whippershnappers