Maisch and her fellow heroes -- identified as Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zamudio -- stopped the carnage after 20 people were shot, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. But when she saw the gunman trying to reload, she made a move to grab the magazine. Maisch, 61, effectively disarmed the shooter as several men pounced on him and threw him to ground. I think the men got the gun, and I was able to get the magazine," she said. As he was shooting, she said, she was expecting to be hit and she wondered what it would feel like. Badger, a 74-year-old retired army colonel living in Tucson, told Pottsville, Pa.'s Republican-Herald how he helped capture Loughner, and that he was grazed in the back of the head by a bullet. While we had him on the ground I saw blood running and it wasn't until then I realized it was coming from the back of my head," Badger said. Mueller did not say where Loughner got the gun. That's the ridiculous state to where we have become. The Heroes of the Tucson Shooting 
 
 "I heard the shots but I thought they were fireworks at first," Badger told the newspaper.
– Talk about a brave 61-year-old: Patricia Maisch is being called a hero after wrenching away the Tucson shooter’s ammunition, preventing him from reloading as she helped press him to the ground, ABC News reports. Maisch was in line to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when the shooting began. She threw herself to the ground to dodge the attack, and found Jared Lee Loughner “next to me on the ground” after he was laid low by another bystander. A trio of men—Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber, and Joseph Zimudie—had "knocked him down" and sat on him as she held his ankles. "I kneeled over him. He was pulling a magazine and I grabbed the magazine and secured that." "I think the men got the gun, and I was able to get the magazine," preventing him from reloading, Maisch said. Click for more on the four heroes.