From: Army Times

BY SANDRA CHEREB – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | POSTED : THURSDAY SEP 8, 2011 11:44:01 EDT
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Carson City man who ushered a woman and child out the back door of an IHOP restaurant during a bloody rampage at the pancake house says he’s not a hero.

But the husband and father of those two survivors thanked him later for his quick thinking during the Tuesday shooting that ended with five people dead, including the gunman, and seven wounded.

“I didn’t freak out. I didn’t have time to be afraid,” Kevin Carrick, 52, a father of eight and former Air Force paramedic, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “I would be remiss to not say that the only reason I’m still here is that God saw fit to keep us here.”