Jon Meis is a apprentice and was alive as a architecture adviser at Seattle Pacific University, but Thursday if a gunman began to acerbity through a hall on the Christian campus, Meis became a hero.
Meis, a 22-year-old engineering major, is accustomed by adolescent acceptance with arrest 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra, who was not a student, and hitting him with pepper aerosol while he was reloading a shotgun. Ybarra had already afflicted several victims, one of whom died. The Seattle Times specifically appear that Meis put the declared apache in a chokehold and captivated him on the arena until badge arrived.
John Meis is said to accept brought down the declared apache Thursday afterwards he had already dead one alone and blood-soaked others. (Image source: KIRO-TV/Facebook)
“Jon Meis is absolutely one of the greatest guys you will anytime meet,” an unnamed acquaintance told KIRO-TV. “He was on the aforementioned abode allowance attic as me and it makes absolute faculty that he was the one to do this. He’s a absurd architect as able-bodied with an acutely artistic mind! I bethink seeing him alive in that berth abreast the doors at Otto Miller thinking, ‘Man, he has an simple job.’ Little did we apperceive what God would use him for today.”
I'm appreciative of the affectionate accomplishments that my roommate, Jon Meis, showed today demography down the shooter. He is a hero. #prayforSPU #SPUshooting
— Matt Garcia (@MattJamesGarcia) June 6, 2014
Police said Ybarra had added shotgun armament and a knife on him.
“But for the abundant acknowledgment by the humans of Seattle Pacific, this adventure ability accept been abundant added tragic,” Assistant Badge Chief Paul McDonagh said.
Four people, including the adolescent man who died, were rushed to Harborview Medical Center. A alarmingly blood-soaked 20-year-old woman was in accelerated affliction backward Thursday night afterwards about 5 hours in surgery, hospital backer Susan Gregg said. A 24-year-old man was ailing in satisfactory condition. A Seattle Blaze Department official said the man suffered “pellet blazon wounds” to his abutting and chest.
Medics delay abaft awning afterwards a cutting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A abandoned apache armed with a shotgun opened blaze in a architecture at the baby Seattle university, fatally acid one being and abasing three others afore a apprentice chastened him with pepper aerosol as he approved to reload, Seattle badge said. (AP/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
A 22-year-old man was advised and released, Gregg said. Badge said he suffered accessory injuries during the attempt with the suspect.
None of the victims were anon identified.
Ybarra was taken into badge custody.
SPU President Dan Martin, center, prays with university trustee Matt Whitehead and Geoff Smith, right, in the Free Methodist abbey afterwards a cutting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014. A man that attempt acceptance was disarmed by others at the scene. (AP/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
“The doubtable was calm. Not speaking. Not moving. Not struggling. Just there,” apprentice Chris Howard, who was at Otto Miller Hall during the incident, said of Ybarra if badge arrived.
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Zack McKinley, who told the Seattle Times he is a abutting acquaintance of Ybarra, said the man’s accomplishments fabricated “no faculty at all.”
“He’s cool blessed and friendly. He’s an alarming guy, anyone who would never let you down,” McKinley said of the shooter, acquainted that he didn’t do drugs or booze alcohol and had aswell afresh gotten a job bagging groceries, which they had acclaimed a few weeks earlier.
Yet, KIRO-TV reported that badge said the shooter had visited Columbine High Academy and allegedly bidding an absorption in academy shootings.
Ybarra’s father, Ambrose Ybarra, told the Times his ancestors doesn’t apperceive any specific data of the case and said, “I just charge to put my accoutrements about my ancestors now. We just charge to sit down and talk.” He added that the accusations are “unsettling.”
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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