Aaron Salter Jr. after three decades with the police, had been a security guard at the mall in Buffalo for four years. The gentle, friendly guard was forced to draw his pistol on Saturday when a heavily armed man approached the supermarket, firing.
Deadly draft
Salter Jr. also managed to hit the gunman, but the bullets from his weapon did not penetrate the gunman’s bulletproof equipment, authorities said 18-year-old Payton Gendron.
Gendron would then have killed the guard before continuing his deadly journey.
‘He died a hero’
Slater’s son is sure his father saved lives with his courageous actions: “He died a hero,” son Aaron Slater III told The Daily Beast. Aaron Salter Jr. leaves behind three children.
It wasn’t the guard’s first time staring down the barrel of a firearm, The Buffalo News reported. As a police officer, he once came face to face with a burglar. “I was saved by my partner,” Salter Jr. stated. then.