01-10-2011, 09:04 AM
A TRUE HEROINE!
A 61-year-old woman wrestled an ammunition clip from the Arizona gunman as he tried to reload his weapon.
Patricia Maisch told of the moment she tackled Jared Loughner, stopping his killing spree outside an Arizona supermarket on Saturday.
she may have saved many lives after helping disarm the Arizona gunman on Saturday.
Ms Maisch found herself lying next to the shooter as he tried to fit a fresh clip of bullets to his Glock 9mm pistol.
She said: 'I kneeled over him. He was pulling a magazine [to reload] and I grabbed the magazine and secured that.'
Three other men - identified as Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie - stepped in to stop the carnage.
A 61-year-old woman wrestled an ammunition clip from the Arizona gunman as he tried to reload his weapon.
Patricia Maisch told of the moment she tackled Jared Loughner, stopping his killing spree outside an Arizona supermarket on Saturday.
she may have saved many lives after helping disarm the Arizona gunman on Saturday.
Ms Maisch found herself lying next to the shooter as he tried to fit a fresh clip of bullets to his Glock 9mm pistol.
She said: 'I kneeled over him. He was pulling a magazine [to reload] and I grabbed the magazine and secured that.'
Three other men - identified as Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie - stepped in to stop the carnage.