Brandon M. Wemhoff

Brandon M. Wemhoff saved Margaret E. Mullet from assault, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 29, 2011. Mullet, 54, a pharmacist, was behind the counter at the store where she worked when a masked man, armed with a gun and knife, climbed over the counter and threatened her. A customer in the store, Wemhoff, 29, telephone technician, witnessed the assault. He responded to the pharmacy, climbed over the counter, and confronted the assailant. A struggle between the two men broke out, with the assailant momentarily pinning Wemhoff against a counter. Wemhoff then overpowered the assailant and disarmed him, and he took him to the floor and pinned him there until police arrived shortly and arrested him. Mullet fled unharmed.