American Marines Who Thwarted Paris Train Attack Tells Their Story

                            
 Spencer Stone (from left), Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos helped tackle a gunman aboard a high-speed train.

Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler were traveling together when they heard shattering glass and saw people running, Skarlatos' brother Peter said. Sadler, on his first trip to Europe, said they acted right away.

                     

"My friend Alek Skarlatos yells, 'Get him!,' so my friend Spencer Stone immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself," Sadler said.

"The three of us beat up the guy," Sadler said. "In the process, Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away."

Spencer suffered cuts to his head and neck, and his thumb was almost cut off, Norman said.

Skarlatos, who joined his friends on vacation after returning from Afghanistan, seized the rifle and hit the suspect in the head with the muzzle.

Norman and Sadler tied up the suspect known as El Khazzani a Moroccan National who is strongly link with ISIS.

The attacker, Norman said, "put up quite a bit of a fight. But Spencer Stone is a very strong guy. He actually held him very well and Alexander and Anthony had a pretty good go at hitting him."

He added later, "The way that ... the two Americans had a go at him, he could not do much more."