© @ImMeme0/X screenshotDramatic video shows heroic Walmart shopper and Marine veteran Derrick Perry (second from right) confront a suspected maniac with a knife (second from left) outside a Michigan store, July 27, 2025.
In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.
Perry is being praised for his actions, with some even suggesting he should be nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"Give this man the recognition his actions deserve," one commenter said. "Good men who are armed save lives."
Dramatic video shows heroic Walmart shopper and Marine veteran Derrick Perry (second from right) confront a suspected maniac with a knife (second from left) outside a Michigan store.
Perry's own daughter also chimed in. She wrote on Facebook that his heroism is a "proud daughter moment" for her. His daughter-in-law added that the veteran is a "true hero."
© X/paige29863Derrick Perry’s daughter gave him a shoutout on Facebook, saying it was a “proud daughter moment.”
"Drop it! Throw the knife now. Throw it away!" the stand-your-ground hero says.
Several other men standing alongside him, one pushing a Walmart shopping cart, helped to force back the attacker.
The camera then pans to the Walmart entrance, where one of the victims of the stabbing attack is seen lying on the ground.
The other brave customers surround the attacker and order him to lie on the ground before the video ends.
© Associated PressBradford Gille is accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart store in Traverse City.
His victims range in age from 29 to 85, with six of them over 60, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. They are all expected to survive.
Shea revealed that Gille has a history of arrests for drug offenses and vandalism.
The horror began at the store just before 5 p.m. Saturday after the man went on a stabbing spree, attacking shoppers at random.
Six were left in critical condition and five in serious condition, but by Sunday, just four were in serious condition and seven in fair condition, according to a statement from the Munson Medical Center shared by Click On Detroit.
A witness was shopping in Walmart with her fiancé when the attack happened and said customers chased the attacker out of the store and held him in the parking lot until first responders arrived.
"It was just very panicky, very scary. I've never witnessed anything like that, and I've lived in Traverse City my whole life," Angela Helfrich told Click On Detroit.
Walmart employees and shoppers stand outside after a maniac stabbed 11 people in Michigan. AP
"I was way too close. That could have been me or my family, and I feel awful for all the victims and their families."
Former US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who lives in Traverse City, said he and his husband, Chasten, were "shaken by the awful and senseless violence" at Walmart on Saturday.
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