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Mark Moogalian's Murder At Arras

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On August 21, 2015, a heavily armed gunman boarded a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris. At first, a man named Mark Moogalian tried to take away the gunman’s rifle unaware that he had several other weapons. Moogalian was shot in the neck and collapsed to the floor in critical condition. Luckily, three courageous US citizens who heard the commotion on the other side of the train car came charging at the gunman and restrained him after a violent struggle. The gunman was tied up while unconscious from being knocked out and the train made an emergency stop at Arras,in Belgium, for the police department to arrest him. It has been revealed that the suspect was carrying a luggage full of a couple weapons and was already known to French intelligence
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