When 19-year-old Jason Erickson got off the bus at the Frandor Shopping Center Thursday, he had one thing on his mind.

"I just wanted food," Erickson said.

But as he walked across the parking lot, this LCC student realized something wasn't right.

"I saw some old people wrestling around with a guy about 30 years old in a leather jacket," he said.

Erickson said he overhead people saying they had just been robbed at gunpoint, so he made a decision.

"As soon as I saw things were getting out of control, me and another guy decided to jump and put him against the wall because we could tell he had a gun in his pocket," Erickson said.

And that is where the armed suspect remained until Lansing Police arrived.

"We held his left arm against the wall as hard as we could so he couldn't do anything with [the gun,]" he said.

Police say that suspect plus one other had just pulled a gun on a victim in his car and demanded the man's recent poker winnings from Trippers. Afterward, both suspects tried to escape, but witnesses had another idea.

"I was pretty scared when he looked at me and said he was going to shoot me, really scared," Erickson said.

Jason's friends say they're not surprised things ended up this way because they say, Jason is always ready and willing to help others.

"I don't know if a lot of people would have taken that risk," Lauren Metcalf, Erickson's roommate, said.

But this hero remains humble, saying he'd do it again, if he had to.

"I'm just a kid who saw an opportunity to hold a guy down so no one gets shot," Erickson said.

Police have one person in custody and have recovered the stolen money. They're looking for a second man they believe was involved in the robbery.