Solon Skarlatos almost didn’t answer the phone when it rang Friday morning. It was from an unknown number in Europe. When he picked up, it was his brother Alek Skarlatos, who said he and his childhood friends had stopped a terrorist on a train headed to Paris.
Alek Skarlatos, who grew up in Sacramento but is a National Guardsman in Roseburg, Ore., was vacationing in Europe with Air Force Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone and another friend, Anthony Sadler. The trio boarded a Paris-bound train in Amsterdam on Friday.
After a stop in Brussels, a man came out of the bathroom and fired a shot, said Solon Skarlatos.