Hero Grocery Store Worker Tried to Disarm Gunman Before Being Killed in Oregon Safeway Shooting

One of the two victims of Sunday's deadly shooting inside an Oregon supermarket is being hailed a hero as new details emerge about the violence.

Police said that Safeway employee Donald Ray Surrett Jr., 66, attacked the gunman, who was carrying an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun, with a produce knife in an attempt to disarm him, reported KREM-TV. The gunman, identified by police as 20-year-old Ethan Blair Miller, fatally shot himself in the back of the Bend, Ore., store, police have said.

A second victim, Glen Edward Bennett, 84, was shot and killed at the front of the store.

Both victims have GoFundMe pages to help aid funeral expenses.

In a touching tribute for Surrett Jr., Surrett's sister-in-law, Jerilynn Morra, wrote, "Don was a veteran and his instincts kicked in trying to save others. He was shot and killed trying to subdue the young gunman."