Military veteran tackles gunman threatening to 'shoot everybody' in Kalamazoo crowd

A military veteran is being called a hero for tackling a man to the ground in Kalamazoo when that suspect pulled out a gun during a fight, police said.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday morning, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded a report of a fight in which a man flashed a gun in a crowd on Michigan Avenue near Howard Street. Officers were already in the area and arrived to the scene quickly.