SARASOTA - A U.S. Army soldier visiting family in the Bay Area is being called a hero. Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples foiled a bank robbery in Sarasota.
"He waves the gun at one of my children. So after he walked out of the bank, I followed him out here," said Peoples, speaking with FOX 13 in the parking lot of the bank after the entire ordeal.
"I've been through five deployments. I've fought the Muqtada militia, everybody you can think of, so weapons getting pointed at me, it doesn't really bother me anymore," he said. "I took the weapon away from him and put him on the ground and the rest was history."Every time I get deployed, I always tell my children I'm going to fight the bad men.
When I walked back in the bank, my oldest boy said 'did you get the bad men?' and I said 'yep, I got the bad men' and everyone applauded," Peoples said.
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Classic case of running towards the gunfire or away from it. Good stuff....