COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — When Michael Hagiwara recounts the events of Nov. 27, 2015 he hardly thinks of himself as a hero. For him, his actions were out of instinct.

“I have spent so many years in health care, so many years as a nurse in the emergency department, I felt compelled to do something,” Hagiwara said.

He was getting his eyeglasses fitted inside a medical office building with his daughter who was three at the time when all of a sudden a woman rushed inside.

“I think her exact words were, Oh my God he has a gun and he’s shooting people, at first I thought she must be mistaken, this is a very poorly timed joke, but looking at her face I realized that she was in significant distress, something bad had happened,” Hagiwara said.

A gunman had opened fire in the parking lot

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