At 1 am on Sunday morning, a masked man approached the entryway to the Mons Venus strip club in Tampa, Florida, wielding a flashlight in one hand and a loaded Glock 9mm handgun in the other. The man walked straight to the door and started to walk in, but security guard Manuel Resto saw him coming and attempted to grab the gun out of his hand.
Surveillance video posted online by the Tampa Police Department, shows the man wrestle the gun out of Resto’s grip and then it goes off, hitting the door, but fortunately not injuring any of the nearly 200 patrons inside the club. The man then strikes the security guard several times in the head with the handgun. In the struggle, the assailant drops the firearm and Resto picks it up and aims it at the man, who lunges at Resto attempting to get the gun back before being overwhelmed by the security guard and two other bystanders.
The three men subdued the 44-year-old assailant until police arrived and arrested him on multiple charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The suspect’s motive is unknown, but in a statement, police say he had two fully loaded magazines in his pockets. Tampa Police Interim Chief Lee Bercaw says there’s no question that Resto’s actions saved lives. “Thanks to their heroic actions,” Bercaw says. “Today an armed suspect is in custody and no lives were lost."
Source: ABC 7 Chicago