Michigan Walmart customers used shopping carts and a gun to subdue a man who stabbed 11 people

Matthew Kolakowski was shopping for fisherman equipment and snacks with his daughter. Weekend Michigan Walmart A employee shouted, “He’s got a knife,” and then screaming.

Then he saw a man running towards the safe.

“Suddenly I see him opened and I swear we locked his eyes for a minute, and I shouted my daughter ‘Stay here’. I started running, Kol Kolakowski said on Saturday, remembering that he decided to confront the man accused of stabbing 11 people in the Traverse City store.

Bradford Gille Accused of terrorism on Monday and 11 attempted murder. Police said he had no prominent motivation violent attack 3 1/2 inch (about 9 centimeters) was performed with a knife.

The actions of Kolakowski and some other men received effective praise from Şerif Michael Shea, the Grand Traverse district. On one night, foreigners became online celebrities for their heroes as a video showing their rapid spread to social media.

Kolakowski said he saw the man dived into an old woman outside while following the man from the store. Kolakowski, who had no weapons, took a shopping basket, hoping to overthrow the man while chasing.

“He ran immediately behind him and buried his knife on his back just in front of me, Kol Kolakowski said. “He took the knife out of him and went up to get up, then he stopped and hesitated and turned as if he was going to go after him. Here he noticed me with a grocery car … I just went as hard as possible and I took him to his ankles from behind in the grocery car.”

Kolakowski, a 39 -year -old veteran, quickly joined with another man with a shopping basket that stopped the man by the authorities. A third man pointed to the man a gun and repeatedly asked him to drop the knife.

He finally put the knife on the ground and said that he jumped to the man and restricted him until the police came quickly.

“To be honest, I didn’t hesitate, Kol Kolakowski said from his home in the nearby city City. “I just continued,” he said, although he was afraid of stabbing himself.

Shea said 11 victims were men and women ranging from 29 to 84 years of age, including a Walmart employee. Authorities, all of them are expected to survive, he said.

Authorities, 42 -year -old Gille’in mental health problems story, and since 2001 Michigan, Petoskey’de arrested many times or tickets, he said. He is also sentenced to imprisonment for crimes related to attack and domestic violence.

In 2017, after being accused of damaging a tomb vault and overturning the grave marks in a Ptoskey cemetery, he was not found guilty for madness. And the police in Petoskey reported that he had recently talked to Gille about Loitering.

On Monday, the Petoskey Ministry of Public Safety said the agency received a court order to take Gille detention on Friday and was a risk for himself or others.

But they couldn’t find it – until the traverse City knives occurred.

Gille’s mother said that in 2007, petoskey news investigation was in a long -term mental disease cycle. Beverly Gille praised the police and judges, whom she said she was trying to help her at that time.

The newspaper said, “Good in the medicine,” he said. “The problem is that her illness says she’s good and she doesn’t have to take her medicine.”

In a statement on Monday, Gille looked uneasy and claimed that he was homeless. An objection was made without a crime for him and Bond was determined as $ 100,000.

Kolakowski said that when he besieged the man in the Walmart parking lot, he was clear that something was not true. He described the man as wild -eyed and sweating, and he described the people in the store as badly, as if he was making an excuse why he stabbed everyone ”.

Kolakowski brother -in -law Chris O’Brien, who recorded the video, said the “crazy” scene was incredibly quick and that Kolakowski’s actions were absolutely prevented from stabbing a few stabbing.

“The crazy part was his courage. It was something to witness,” he said.

“A man stabbed people, and if we didn’t do anything right, we’d eat the next row on the list, O’brien said. “Matt was determined to be sure that he was standing at that time and there, and of course it is like hell.”

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Associated Press reporters Ed White and Corey Williams contributed.