A 29-year-old patron attempting to flee the gunfire saw the shooter struggling with the rifle at one point. The man charged at the shooter, wrestled the weapon away and tossed it over the restaurant’s counter.
"He is the hero here and no doubt he saved many lives by wrestling the gun away," Aaron said.
Cordero said he also saw a man who "jumped in" as the gunman was reloading the rifle.
"There's a gentleman who was in there that when the guy stopped to reload his gun he jumped him," Cordero recalled. "Had that guy reloaded, there was plenty of people in that restaurant that would not have made it home this morning."