us, she said. raymond green vance s family says he had just landed a new job and couldn t wait to save money to get a new apartment. he was a kind selfless adult with his entire life ahead of him. he was at club q with his long time girlfriend, and her parents, including her father who helped stop the gunman, not before raymond was fatally wounded. richard and i spoke just before air time. i want to warn you, it s a raw, emotional discussion, and what he describes is as graphic as you might imagine. major fiaro, take us back to when the gunman first entered the club. what happened? because you re quoted in the new york times saying you went into combat mode. what instincts kicked in from your tours in iraq and afghanistan. listen, first of all, i just want to say this is in no way about me. my daughter is grieving the loss of her boyfriend. he was in our lives for six years. raymond was a great young man.
it s going to be a tough several days and weeks and months, and some of the pain is never going to go away, but you helped a lot of people. you helped a lot of people, and i want to thank you for what you have done, and i want to thank you for talking to us tonight. please take care of yourself, your wife and daughter, give them giant hugs for us. before you go, i i want to apologize for the people that didn t get their kids because all of them deserve to have their kids home tonight. there s no question about that. all of these people deserve to be home with their families tonight, and they re not. former army major richard fiaro, thank you for what you did. thank you. you are a hero. our best to you and your family. thank you. as the colorado springs police chief said today, at
had seen a lifetime s worth of violence already in iraq and afghanistan only to confront it again with his family and friend at a colorado lgbtq nightclub. john berman here in for anderson. richard fiaro said he went into combat mode to disarm the gunman who opened fire in club q in colorado springs. authorities credited him and another man, thomas james, for saving lives. two absolute heroes, if not for them, i don t know how many other people would have been injured. one of them was injured and is in the hospital but they did an amazing job. as it stands, the gunman armed with a handgun and an ar-15 style rifle killed five and wounded 17 others. chief vasquez named them this evening saying too often we lose track of the victims focusing on the suspect, something we will not do tonight except to say he had a previous violent encounter with the law and now faces murder and possible hate crime charges. the victims, then, are kelly