Most people’s instinct is to run for cover when a mass shooter is on the loose. But not Army Veteran Chris Mintz. He took seven bullets trying to stop the gunman from entering a classroom and he will live to tell about it. Not only that, but it was his son’s birthday and he made sure the killer knew it
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NY POST – Army vet Chris Mintz was shot seven times as he tried to save other students during the massacre in Oregon – yet he managed a smile in his hospital bed, according to reports.
He “tried to protect some people,” his aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News. “We were told he did heroic things to protect some people.”
Mintz, 30, underwent surgery after being shot in the back, abdomen and hands, and also had two broken legs, she said.
“We’re not sure how his legs got broken,” she told the network. “He was on the wrestling team and he’s done cage-fighting so it does not surprise me that he would act heroically.”
Mintz, who is originally from Randleman, NC, served about 10 years in the Army and had just started college, Brown said.
“It was a great, great shock … We’ve all been sitting on pins and needles and praying very hard,” Brown said, adding that Mintz was “an extremely good guy.”
Mintz’s cousin, Derek Bourgeois, told The Daily Mail that Mintz charged at the shooter.
“There was no way he was going to stand around and watch something this horrific happen,” Bourgeois said, adding that Mintz is expected to recover.
It’s people like Chris Mintz who rise to the occasion to do such brave and heroic things that inspire us all. I’m so glad he survived so people will have a chance to honor him in this life.