Investigators released new details about the murder-suicide at a Ford dealership in Morgan Hill that left three people dead on Tuesday evening.
Officials said 60-year-old Steven Leet had been fired from his job in the service department at that dealership at about 4:15 p.m. He went out to his car and then about 20 minutes later, he came into his manager's office where he shot 38-year-old Xavier Souto, who died instantly, according to police.
That's when Souto's manger, 59-year-old Brian Light, tried to wrestle the revolver away from Leet.
That valiant act by Light gave customers and other employees time to run out of the dealership, Police Chief David Swing said Wednesday.
Leet regained control of the gun and shot White twice, which killed him. Officers called White a hero, saying he delayed Leet long enough so others could escape.
Swing says officers arrived four minutes after the first shots were fired. They were close enough to hear the sound of Leet fatally shooting himself on the front curb of the dealership.
No one else was injured.
Both of those managers who died were fathers, and Swing says their families are devastated.
