Video captures moment a coach disarmed a student with a gun
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Earlier this year, a high school coach in Oregon was for stopping an armed student before he could hurt anyone. Now, new surveillance footage reveals the coach brought the student into an embrace after disarming him.
In May, 18-year-old Angel Granados-Diaz brought a gun to Parkrose High School, but before he could do anything, football and track coach Keanon Lowe stopped him. Reports at the time said Lowe tackled the student, but the new footage paints a different picture.
The video — obtained Friday by CBS Portland affiliate KOIN — shows Lowe grab the gun from Granados-Diaz and hand it to another teacher. After Granados-Diaz was disarmed, Lowe pulled him in for a long hug.
"The door opens — I'm within arm's length of the door, about 3 feet away from the door, and there's a kid with a gun, a shotgun," Lowe told KOIN. "In a fraction of a second, I analyzed everything really fast," he said. "I saw the look in his face, look in his eyes, looked at the gun, realized it was a real gun and then my instincts just took over."
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