Paris train hero attends the Oregon college where there was a shooting

October 3, 2015

The U.S. Army National Guardsman who helped thwart a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in August says he would have been in a classroom at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College when a gunman opened fire Thursday had it not been for the hero’s welcome he received after the train attack.

Skarlatos, assigned to an infantry unit in Roseburg, Oregon, was also chosen to compete on this season’s “Dancing With the Stars.” It was while in a rehearsal for “Dancing” Thursday that Skarlatos learned a gunman had opened fire at Roseburg's Umpqua Community College, the same school where Skarlatos was enrolled to take classes this semester.

“I was enrolled in the Reserve Academy on Saturday and Tuesday and Thursday classes and if I didn’t get called for the ‘Dancing’ show I would have been on campus,” Skarlatos said today on “Good Morning America” in a live interview from Roseburg.

When asked whether he would have taken down the gunman if he had been in the classroom, Skarlatos replied, “I would have tried anyways.”

Source: https://gma.yahoo.com/paris-train-hero-dancing-star-alek-skarlatos-tried-135416526--abc-news-celebrities.html#

What are the odds? He helped stop a terrorist attack and he would've been on this campus with an active shooter. Crazy.