“I kind of didn’t really hesitate,” one good Samaritan recounted. “None of us even talked as we walked over there, we all did the exact same thing.”
Four California gymgoers jumped into action Tuesday when they noticed a hatchet-wielding madman holding another man hostage inside their Planet Fitness.he jumped off his stair machine as soon as he and three other good Samaritans noticed the screaming assailant holding a victim at knifepoint in the Corona gym, located roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
“I kind of didn’t really hesitate,” Keene recounted. “None of us even talked as we walked over there, we all did the exact same thing.”The group startled Chand enough that his unidentified victim was able to escape his grasp, video shows. They then jumped onto Chand, taking him to the ground. The foursome ripped his knife and hatchet away and kept the madman pinned to the floor until police arrived.The gymgoers jumped into action when they heard Chand screaming.One of the good Samaritans, who Keene said works as a nurse, believes he smelled methamphetamine on Chand as they held him down.
The victim has since been released from an area hospital, where he was treated for multiple, but non-life-threatening stab wounds.He has been booked on an attempted murder charge with a bail of $1,000,000.
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