SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Relatives of the three Americans who tackled and disarmed a gunman on a European train say they are proud of the men and relieved they weren't killed during those chaotic moments onboard a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.
Tony Sadler says his son, Anthony Sadler, called him to tell him what happened. He says he was stunned and then relieved his 23-year-old son was not injured or killed.
Sadler and two Sacramento-area friends, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, helped subdue the man carrying a handgun and an assault rifle.
The gunman slashed Stone several times with a boxcutter. His mother, Joyce Eskel, tells the San Francisco Chronicle her son called her from the hospital and told her the gunman also tried to shoot him twice but the weapon didn't work.
Eskel says "he's always been a hero to me. Now he's an actual hero."
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