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When the gunfire began, Grillot hid under a table until nine shots had been fired. Believing the suspect’s magazine was empty, he then chased the gunman in hopes of subduing him.

“I guess I miscounted with everything going on. And I got behind him, and he turned around and fired a round at me,” Grillot said Thursday from his hospital bed in a video from the University of Kansas Health System.

Grillot said the bullet went through his right hand and into his chest, just missing a major artery but fracturing a vertebra in his neck.

“Another half inch, I could be dead or never walk again,” said Grillot, who was wearing a neck brace. His injured hand remains immobilized.

He did not describe what led to the shooting, saying only that he felt compelled to intervene in the interest of humanity, “not about where he (the victim) was from or his ethnicity.”

“I was just doing what anyone should have done for another human being,” he said. Madasani visited him in the hospital, and they have become friends because of their shared ordeal.

The guy doing the shooting had bigger problems than alcohol...