June 25, 2007.

Today was a bad day.

A brave Corrections officer was killed in the line of duty, others were injured and a lot of folks were just plain scared.

But some good people also did some good things.

Eric Fullerton, a scrappy former paratrooper somehow managed to wrestle away a gun from an escaped convict.

Then, with genuine modesty, he told us he wasn't a hero.

But. of course, we beg to differ.

And then - on a smaller but still important scale - there are some other people who did some good things at ABC 4.

These are people you don't always see but ones who should be recognized.

For starters, there is Steve our morning editor.

When all heck started breaking loose, Steve grabbed one of our smaller production cameras and dashed to Arby's.

Because of his fast action and thinking, we were able to get a shot of the suspect being led out of the restaurant.

Steve also got dramatic video of a man wounded in the neck and the head.

Meanwhile, one of veteran photographers, Dennis Kurumada, hung around the crime scene for several hours after all the action ended.

And because of that, he was able to snag an interview with Eric Fullerton, the hero who wrestled the gun away from Curtis Allgier.

Thanks to people like Dennis, Steve and many others, we are able to better share a terrible tragedy with viewers, a story we wish we didn't have to tell.