Speaking exclusively with News 4 Tucson, Rhude said it was an active shooter situation stopped short by a heroic customer with a gun.
Rhude wasn't at work at the time but based on his staff's account of what happened he said a man at the bar began hurling racial slurs and talking about violence.
"He was throwing out some stuff about the KKK and something about I'll bring a bomb back or something," Rhude explained.
Staff was able to get the man to leave but about an hour or so later, just after 6 p.m. on Sunday, the man returned with a rifle and fired a shot into the ceiling.
"Everybody heard that a little panic came on. So, he came around and was moving that gun on people," he said.
But then two customers stepped in to try and convince him to drop the weapon. One of those customers was armed with a gun of their own.
"He [the customer] then said drop your gun to the bad guy three times and bad guy wouldn't and he leveled it right at the guy and our customer here, he shot him, apparently three times," Rhude said.
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