This hero doctor charged a gunman at a church service and prevented further bloodshed, officials say
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A California family and sports medicine doctor with a deep interest in building community was praised as a hero after he died confronting a gunman at a church service Sunday.
Dr. John Cheng, 52, was the lone person killed in the mass shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church, where a Taiwanese church held services, in Laguna Woods, California. Five others were wounded by gunfire -- and if not for Cheng's efforts, the bloodshed could have been worse.
"Dr. Cheng is a hero in this incident," Orange County Sheriff Donald Barnes said Monday. "Without the actions of Dr. Cheng, it is no doubt that there would have been numerous additional victims in this crime."
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