Elisjsha Dicken, 22, gestured to other shoppers to flee 'as he engaged and closed in on the suspect', say police.
Many more people would have died during a mass shooting in the US state of Indiana on Sunday night if not for the "heroic" actions of a bystander who stopped the gunman, police have said.
Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said on Monday that Mr Dicken had engaged the gunman almost from the outset of the attack.The police chief said that Mr Dicken had shown "proficient" and "sound" tactics in firing at "the gunman with a handgun from quite a distance", despite having had no law enforcement or military training.
"Many more people would've died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting," Mr Ison said.The attacker was identified as a 20-year-old local resident who had recently been evicted and lost his job at a warehouse in May.
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