{"id":1191,"date":"2013-01-11T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/us-teacher-stops-school-shooting\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T01:44:00","slug":"us-teacher-stops-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/11\/us-teacher-stops-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"US teacher stops school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kern County Sheriff’s Office said a teacher managed to talk the gunman down<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A teacher at a high school in California has been praised by police for averting a serious shooting incident.<\/p>\n

The teacher and a campus supervisor talked a gunman into putting down his weapon after he had shot and injured one pupil at Taft Union High School.<\/p>\n

Police said the gunman had enough ammunition to kill many people.<\/p>\n

The injured student was taken to hospital in an air ambulance and is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The drama started after 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) when the gunman, also a student, arrived late, armed with a shotgun, at the school in the small town in California’s central valley.<\/p>\n

Students and staff telephoned police, but before officers could arrive, the suspect had shot at two people in a class in the science block. One shot missed its target.<\/p>\n

The teacher, who had been grazed by a pellet, then intervened.<\/p>\n

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He and another school official who entered the classroom are reported by US media to have warned the suspect that there would be no shooting in his class – at which point the gunman put down his weapon and police officers arrested him.<\/p>\n

“They talked him into putting that shotgun down. He in fact told the teacher, `I don’t want to shoot you,’ and named the person that he wanted to shoot,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.<\/p>\n

“The heroics of these two people goes without saying. They could have just as easily… tried to get out of the classroom and left students, and they didn’t,” he added. “<\/p>\n

Parents of pupils said the suspect had been suspended last year from the school 120 miles (190km) north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Deputies from the local sheriff”s office and town officials conducted a search of the school and its grounds to make sure no-one else was involved and all other students were safe.<\/p>\n

The shooting comes four weeks after a gunman killed 26 pupils and staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

That incident has provoked a nationwide debate about gun laws in the US Vice-President Joe Biden has said his task force on gun control will make its recommendations to President Barack Obama as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Taft Union High School will be closed for classes on Friday, but will have counsellors on campus to talk to worried students.<\/p>\n

Former pupils of the school include the distinguished US Air Force pilot, General Gordon Graham, the American football player Russell Letlow and the television actress Jeanne Cooper.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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