Mohamed Elmi, 31, and Mohamed Salad, 29, walked to the front door of the Ten X
nightclub in Calgary Canada and opened fire on the crowd of patrons from the outside.
CALGARY – Police said they responded to a shooting at Ten X
Nightclub at the 1100 Block of 10 Avenue southwest just before 2 a.m. Sunday
morning.
A 38-year-old man was shot and taken to hospital in stable
condition.
Two men are now facing charges after a gunman opened fired
inside the Calgary nightclub.
Two of the club’s bouncers are being credited for saving
more people from being shot, as they put their lives on the line to tackle the
gunman.
Spencer Wallace considers himself lucky to be alive. The
part-time nightclub bouncer narrowly missed being shot.
“I hear a gunshot and I see a guy get shot in the chest and
I watch a door explode and watch a nightclub go from perfectly calm to sheer
panic in about 10 seconds,” said Wallace.
At around 1:30 a.m., three men pulled up in front of the
nightclub. Two waited in the car, while the other walked up to the front door
and fired several shots inside, when one victim was shot, police said.
“One of our other staff (was) there and started to apply
pressure right away to him. So for 10 seconds, he was unattended before one of
our guys was on him trying to help,” said Wallace. “I watched people get glass
showered over them. If I was doing a pat down at the time, I would have been in
this guy’s line of fire and I could’ve been shot.”
Witnesses said the shooter was jumped by staff right away,
with the loaded gun still in his hands.
“The camera footage shows other people, customers sprinting
away. He tackled the guy right away.
No hesitation. An average-sized guy, mid
30s, nice guy but no hesitation from him at all. He knew what he had to do and
he put himself on the line to protect people that he didn’t know,” said
Wallace.
“So they were wrestling a guy with a cocked handgun, who had already
opened fire on innocent people.”
“About five or 10 minutes later, I’m out front and the gun
is laying on the sidewalk and the police officer tells me to move out of the
way because the hammer is still cocked back and it could go off.”
The Calgary police gang suppression team happened to be on
scene at the time. One passenger in the vehicle tried to help the shooter and
got away. The third person in the car was arrested.
Those bouncers did exactly what real men do in that horrible
situation. They fought back.
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