LITTLETON, Colo. (AP)- A teacher tackled a man armed with a high-powered rifle just after two teenage students were shot Tuesday at a suburban Denver middle school that's just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, authorities said.
One male and one female were shot at about 3:30 p.m. outside Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Jefferson County Sheriff's office spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said. Both students were taken to a nearby hospital and were expected to survive.
Student Steven Seagraves said he was about 10 feet away when an adult approached students and asked them: "Do you guys go to this school?"
When the students said they did, he shot them, Seagraves said.
Seventh-grade math teacher David Benke, a 6-foot-5 inch former college basketball player who oversees the school's track team, tackled the suspect as he was trying to reload his weapon.
Another Crazie with a gun...What's to be done with people that do these kinds of things. Maybe we should go back to the days when crazies could be locked up indefinitely. Screw their rights. What about everybody elses? Don't we have to right to be protected from these people?
It's extremely tragic that this keeps occurring, but the math teacher is a true everyday hero: http://bit.ly/b0Mxik
ReplyDeleteThe video above shows the teacher demonstrating how he tackled the shooter and risked everything to save the students.