grateful to have come home to them yet full of despair. what will thanksgiving mean to you this year? it is a lot more to be thankful for now. it brings a new reality to how short life really can be and how evil this world really can be. reporter: jerecho says he s grateful to fierro but the veteran says he didn t do enough. there are five people i could not help and one of which was family to me. reporter: two days from thanksgiving, there is profound sad necessary in cringes, a time when families are copping together for thanksgiving, many here torn apart. the suspect in this case will make his first court appearance tomorrow morning. of all thmitnking janet japt, thank you. in north carolina, n.t.s.b. b investigators are on the scene of a deadly helicopter crash. that chopper went down next to a major interstate in charlotte. cbs s mark strassmann says without the pilot s heroic
don t let no one get hurt. reporter: fierro says he grabbed the suspect by his body armor and threw him to the ground. i m a big dude, man, and this guy was bigger, and i just kept whaling on him. reporter: it was too late to save his daughter s boyfriend, raymond green vance, among the five who died. as the community comes to terps with the tragedy, new details on the suspect anderson lee aldrich, authorities say he is out of the hospital and in the county jail. he was known as nicholas brink until age 18 when he changed his name. the washington post said the action came after he had been viciously bullied online. aldrich was arrested for an alleged bomb threat last year but never pros cured. i don t know if i m just not ready to process or if the shock is still there because it comes in waves. reporter: these are photos of jerecho lovall inside club q just before he was shot in the leg saturday night. the father of three says he s