Injured Indian my new best friend, says man who tried to catch shooter
NEW DELHI: It was supposed to be just another evening for Ian Grillot who had walked into his favourite bar to unwind and catch the local basketball game.
Instead, the 24-year-old is now firmly in the spotlight after getting wounded while trying to save two Indians from gunfire.
As shots rang through the suburban Kansas City bar on Thursday, Grillot ducked behind a table and when he thought the gunman was out of bullets, he lunged at the man. But as the Kansas City Star reported, the man had still one round left and shot Grillot.
“I guess I miscounted,” Grillot said in a video, as reported by the newspaper.
Grillot said in the video that he wasn’t really thinking when he tried to save the two Indians.
“It was just, it wasn’t right, and I didn’ t want the gentleman to potentially go after somebody else,” the Kansas City Star quoted him as saying.
But despite the harrowing circumstances, Grillot told the newspaper he was thrilled to see Madasani standing in his doorway at the hospital.
“It just put the biggest smile on my face,” Grillot said in the video. “I’m just very grateful that one of the gentlemen is fine and alive. It’s terrible what happened to his friend. But I think he was watching over us last night.”
He said he considered the Indian his new “best friend”. A GoFundMe page created for him raised more than $87,000.
“I was just doing what anyone should have done,” Grillot told the newspaper. “It’s not about where he’s from, or ethnicity. We’re all humans.”