A church parishioner, Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old former reserve deputy sheriff, has been deemed a hero for shooting and killing the gunman who entered the West Freeway Church of Christ, in White Settlement, TX Sunday morning, but he says he was merely “doing what needed to be done.”

The pistol-packing parishioner captured on livestream taking down a man who opened fire inside a Texas church says doesn't consider himself a hero: "I see myself as doing what needed to be done." https://t.co/rieei8TplK pic.twitter.com/owNkVVz2DK — ABC News (@ABC) December 30, 2019

“I don’t see myself as a hero. I see myself as doing what needed to be done to take out the evil threat,” Wilson told reporters.

He continued, “That’s the way I approach it. That is how – like I said earlier, that’s how I am processing this whole event.”

Two members of the congregation died shortly after the attack in a nearby hospital.