NASHVILLE — The young woman, bandaged and shrouded in bedsheets, began to cry when James Shaw Jr. walked into Trauma Room No. 26 on Monday morning. Then, as the woman’s father drew near, one of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s surgeons spoke up: “Have you met James? James saved a lot of lives.”
The men embraced, crying, the woman’s father clapping James Shaw Jr. on the back.
“Thank you,” the older man whispered to Mr. Shaw, who a day earlier wrested an assault rifle from a man who opened fire at a Waffle House restaurant just southeast of downtown Nashville early Sunday. The rampage left four people dead.
