Vestry member at St. Michael's wins a Carnegie Heros award-Longtime golfing buddies Haldeman and Ledgard had just sipped their first beers at Fat Daddy’s Place in Ligonier on July 11 when all hell broke loose.
Stephen P. Fromholz, 41, of San Antonio, who left the bar after getting into an argument with a patron over the volume on the television set, returned with a semiautomatic rifle he retrieved from his truck and fatally shot patron Donald Holler, 65.
“Honestly, in a situation like that, you’re put in it and you just think he had to be stopped somehow,” said Haldeman, 52, an insurance agent from Ligonier. “You don’t think ... you just react.”
Haldeman rushed the gunman, and Ledgard helped him take Fromholz to the floor, which knocked the rifle from his grip.
The pair held Fromholz down until police arrived.
“When you think about what could have happened and think what didn’t — you feel really blessed that Kirk was able to react that fast,” said Ledgard, 53, a contractor from Greensburg.
“Kirk was really the one who took the first step. I used him as inspiration and just followed my buddy,” Ledgard said.
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