Fil-Am hero in Santa Monica shooting
06/12/2013
SANTA MONICA, California - With a memorial standing at the school entrance and library, classes resumed at Santa Monica City college just days after gunman John Zawahri killed five people in the surrounding area.
Thousands gathered at the school, joining the families of the victims in prayer.
Filipino American Marcel Kahn, the library worker who helped shelter eight other people as the gunman fired his way into the library, is still shaken up by the events.
"Honestly, it just saddens me that this happened, this whole thing happened. Really unexpected," he said.
News of the 22-year-old Filipino’s heroism went viral online after the Los Angeles Times snapped a picture of him.
"I only did what I could do and that was to follow my instinct. When that situation happens, you don’t know what you're going to do," he recalled.
Six people, including the gunman, died in what has been described as a 13-minute rampage, which started when Zawahri killed his father and brother and set their house on fire.
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