““I saw him hand over a bag to the other two individuals that he was with. And I see them kind of run — trying to take off and try to escape. And they’re running towards these two semi-trucks, and they get in between these two semi-trucks,” he told the outlet.
The veteran thought something was fishy when he saw the suspects running between two semi-trucks. Janssens said one of them was wearing a Carhart jacket — which seemed suspicious because it was a comfortable 65 degrees.
He then alerted a state trooper, one of a throng of law enforcement officers at the ill-fated event, about the group.
“‘I think these guys might be part of it. They just kind of look fishy,’” Janssens said he told the cop.
“So as we’re walking up to him, I’m leading. I’m leading him to the guys. They notice that we’re walking up to him, and they start backpedaling a little bit. He looks like he’s kind of concealing something in his jacket,” he said.
When the men began running, Janssens and the officer chased after them.
“I’m jumping barricades, we’re running down the street, and I’m trying to clear people out the way. I’m yelling as I’m chasing after him, ‘Get this guy! Get this guy!’” he said.
The vet said he shouted for several other people to help him tackle a suspect.
“Luckily, these four other guys heard me. And they turn around and said they could hear me yelling to tackle this guy. And I saw him, and luckily they just stepped up and helped tackle him,” he told Fox News Digital.
“As they were tackling him, I think I saw another guy was running away as well. So I kept chasing that guy and then it was just a dead pursuit. So I hurried back and helped these guys try to sustain the situation until cops arrived,” he added.
Janssens said that when the situation was brought under control, he noticed a bag with an AR-style rifle and extended magazines, though he was unsure whether they were used in the mass shooting.”
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