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Rob, the guy was on the move and when was the last time you tried to tackle a guy who was shooting at you? Also, throw something at him? A book vs a Glock? I'll take the Glock.
But there were other stories of heroism:
"“Derek, who is my classmate, he was shot in the arm and it was just amazing to me that he was still up and leaning against the door,” Mr. Perkins said. “The guy tried to come back in and we were able to hold him off. “
Another student, Erin Sheehan, helped tend to the wounded in the class as her fellow students tried to hold the door closed. “He seemed very thorough about it,” she told CNN, referring to the way the gunman carried out the shooting.
At least 17 of the wounded were still in the hospital this morning. One of them was the girlfriend of a student, Paul Geiger, 21, who was at Montgomery Regional Hospital this morning to visit her.
“She was part of the German class that got hit,” he said of his girlfriend, who had been shot in the hand. “She helped barricade the door. For me, she is my hero.”
