Man who shot gunman at Louie's says he's no hero

"Oh, no. No, no. Not at all," the master sergeant in the Oklahoma Air National Guard told The Oklahoman. "I just feel like I'm just an average guy who had the right tool to help at the right time."

Bryan Whittle doesn't think of himself as a hero for stopping the gunman outside Louie's Grill & Bar at Lake Hefner last Thursday.

Whittle and another armed civilian confronted and fired on the gunman Thursday evening minutes after he shot a woman and two girls from outside the popular restaurant, police said.

The gunman was killed after he raised his weapon and fired again, police and eyewitnesses said.

"I just reacted," Whittle, 39, said. "I just did it. I wasn't thinking about anything other than I had to stop this guy and I'm not going to die here."

Whittle lives in The Village near Lake Hefner. He and his wife, Shannon, had just started on a fishing trip to a lake in eastern Oklahoma for the Memorial Day weekend.