AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - New Jersey gun range owner identified as passenger who helped duct-tape unruly man on American Airlines flight
A 53-year-old New Jersey gun range owner and his employee, a retired cop, have been identified as two of the passengers who physically restrained a violent, slur-shouting man aboard American Airlines Flight 618 with duct tape and zip ties. Richard O'Lenick, who owns Gun for Hire in Woodland Park, New Jersey, and his employee Juan […] The post New Jersey gun range owner identified as passenger who helped duct-tape unruly man on American Airlines flight appeared first on American Almanac .
A 53-year-old New Jersey gun range owner and his employee, a retired cop, have been identified as two of the passengers who physically restrained a violent, slur-shouting man aboard American Airlines Flight 618 with duct tape and zip ties. Richard O'Lenick, who owns Gun for Hire in Woodland Park, New Jersey, and his employee Juan Mejia were flying home from a gun expo in Reno, Nevada, when 67-year-old Arthur Layne Lundeen allegedly erupted mid-flight, hurling racist and homophobic slurs at a Black flight attendant and attacking fellow passengers. O'Lenick and Mejia didn't wait for instructions. They rushed Lundeen, pinned him down, and held him while flight attendants retrieved tape and zip ties to secure him to his seat, the New York…Open