Oregon Football Coach Takes Gun From High School Student, Hugs Him In Emotional Video
Keanon Lowe has been dubbed as a hero for disarming a would-be school shooter in Portland, Oregon’s Parkrose High School this May in the most compassionate and heroic way. The recently released security footage from Parkrose High School shows Keanon – a football coach and unarmed security officer – disarming a student who came in with a loaded shotgun on campus.
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An 18-year-old teenager came into school with a loaded shotgun
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The released security footage shows 18-year-old Angel Granados-Diaz walking into a hallway in Parkrose High School with a loaded shotgun in his hands, concealing it with what seems to be a bag or a blanket. He is then seen to be entering a room and terrified students are seen fleeing away. As others began to run for their lives, Keanon Lowe – a football coach of the school – remains focused on pointing the gun away from people and then seizes it from the would-be shooter. “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. In a fraction of a second, I analyzed everything really fast. 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. I lunged for the gun, put two hands on the gun,” the hero coach later told the media.
Luckily, a heroic football coach seized the gun and comforted the would-be shooter
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The video has also revealed a heartwarming moment where Keanon Lowe, moments after seizing the gun, speaks to the gunman and wraps him in a hug, trying to comfort him. Keanon later recalled to the media that Angel kept repeating that he did not want to hurt anyone but himself before yelling, “No one cares about me!” Then the coach and the student are seen to be talking around the corner of the classroom. The police eventually came and arrested the teen. The compassionate coach that saved the day told a media outlet: “A lot of times, especially when you’re young, you don’t realize what you’re doing until it’s over, right?” Angel Granados-Diaz is now 19 and has pleaded guilty to gun possession charges earlier this month, but was not sentenced to time in jail. Instead, he’s bound to undergo mental health treatment and is put on probation for 36 months.
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A day after the incident, Keanon opened up on Twitter
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The heroic coach used to play football in college as a star wide receiver at the University of Oregon from 2011-14 and then worked as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles before coming to work at Parkrose High School.
People were amazed at Keanon’s compassion and heroic action
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This kid didn't want to hurt himself or anyone, and no one was listening to him, in his life, that spoke volumes... no one cares about me! This coach showed him, that was wrong, and he is getting help, not in jail! Kudos to Keanon!
I can't believe people still defend their right to have guns. The rest of the world thinks you're crazy!
God Bless you coach for your courage and for comforting the kid. :)
It is a pity in our time to settle our differences with weapons, just as our ancestors did, which they may have had the justification of survival. But now, why keep the jungle mentality. Ultimately only technology evolves, people live many years back.
Always the one you true like as the one beneath a man or a woman or a child from the life that we gave you. Be a positive and good thing for the family members and friends. Keep the people who have been touched and be thankful for what you got. Thank You!
Humanity and compassion, quite brave and dangerous situation but obviously knowledgeable and well informed staff member there! T. G. that he was able to simultaneously process various scenarios, applied effectively. There's a big lesson here, all school's staffing. Try your very best to be as prepared as possible! You may not be confronted directly as in this incident, but just as safe effectiveness. "Thank you" for brave courageous efforts to protect our own while teaching.
It doesn't seem to be obvious enough to me in this article that the kid was only looking to kill himself. Apparently its not heroic enough to save 'just' one kids life?
A very nice read. I am glad that the boy get the correct treatment from that coach and also the judge. I believe a bright future will someday he get.
I don`t like guns, not a bit. But bannin guns wont make a solution. Last year 1,35 m people were killed worldwide in traffic accidents while 250,000 were killed in firearms accidents / incidents, and clearly the solution is not bannin cars. In my country, Perú, you can`t have legally a firearm (besides the ones you can get on the black market) without a license and a psicollogical exam.
The coach diffused a shooting and that’s what you care about?
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How'd he get in with that?! Do schools that shooters have access to not have enough security guards, metal detectors and scanners at their main entrances and leave the other entrances locked?!
No school I’ve ever been to has a metal detector. Most have 0-2 security guards and no scanners.
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YOU obviously think "blacks are whatever." Ugh. Some of us were not surprised at all.
Load More Replies... This kid didn't want to hurt himself or anyone, and no one was listening to him, in his life, that spoke volumes... no one cares about me! This coach showed him, that was wrong, and he is getting help, not in jail! Kudos to Keanon!
I can't believe people still defend their right to have guns. The rest of the world thinks you're crazy!
God Bless you coach for your courage and for comforting the kid. :)
It is a pity in our time to settle our differences with weapons, just as our ancestors did, which they may have had the justification of survival. But now, why keep the jungle mentality. Ultimately only technology evolves, people live many years back.
Always the one you true like as the one beneath a man or a woman or a child from the life that we gave you. Be a positive and good thing for the family members and friends. Keep the people who have been touched and be thankful for what you got. Thank You!
Humanity and compassion, quite brave and dangerous situation but obviously knowledgeable and well informed staff member there! T. G. that he was able to simultaneously process various scenarios, applied effectively. There's a big lesson here, all school's staffing. Try your very best to be as prepared as possible! You may not be confronted directly as in this incident, but just as safe effectiveness. "Thank you" for brave courageous efforts to protect our own while teaching.
It doesn't seem to be obvious enough to me in this article that the kid was only looking to kill himself. Apparently its not heroic enough to save 'just' one kids life?
A very nice read. I am glad that the boy get the correct treatment from that coach and also the judge. I believe a bright future will someday he get.
I don`t like guns, not a bit. But bannin guns wont make a solution. Last year 1,35 m people were killed worldwide in traffic accidents while 250,000 were killed in firearms accidents / incidents, and clearly the solution is not bannin cars. In my country, Perú, you can`t have legally a firearm (besides the ones you can get on the black market) without a license and a psicollogical exam.
The coach diffused a shooting and that’s what you care about?
Load More Replies... How'd he get in with that?! Do schools that shooters have access to not have enough security guards, metal detectors and scanners at their main entrances and leave the other entrances locked?!
No school I’ve ever been to has a metal detector. Most have 0-2 security guards and no scanners.
Load More Replies... YOU obviously think "blacks are whatever." Ugh. Some of us were not surprised at all.
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