Former Oregon Duck @KeanonLowe went from a hero on the field to a hero in real life by tackling a gunman.
Only way to make schools safe is to do what TSA did for airports!#fixit pic.twitter.com/VbLBlAhzzZ
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) May 17, 2019
Via Oregon Live:
A distraught student entered a classroom Friday at Parkrose High School wearing a black trench coat and carrying a shotgun but didn’t hurt anyone before he was tackled in the hallway by the football coach, police and witnesses said.
Parents and students reported Coach Keanon Lowe, one of Oregon’s most prominent high school and college football players of the past decade, took the armed male student to the ground.
Lowe, also Parkrose’s head track and field coach, works as a security guard at the school, several people said.
“I’m just happy everyone was OK,” Lowe said as he walked out of the school’s fine arts building into a school parking lot shortly after police had cleared the school and talked to witnesses. “I’m happy I was able to be there for the kids and for the community.”