I'm pretty disgusted with how this is being reported on line
One member of the volunteer church security team was Richard White. He was shot while drawing his pistol.
The second member, the head of the team, Jack Wilson, shot the perpetrator from about 40 feet, head shot, and stopped the threat.
About five or six more armed congregants converged on the downed attacker withing 30 more seconds.
So the term heroes is correct.
The first one was killed without getting a shot off.