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https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...es-armed-man-parkrose-high-school/3713816002/


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PORTLAND, Ore. — A former college football standout at the University of Oregon was credited Friday with tackling an armed student at a Portland, Oregon, high school before anyone was injured.

Keanon Lowe, who is now a football and track coach and security guard at Parkrose High School, told reporters as he was leaving a police interview late Friday that he was tired but relieved at the outcome, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.

There are no other suspects. Police declined to release the student’s name and said they were still trying to determine if he fired any shots. Police spokesman Sgt. Brad Yakots declined to confirm Lowe’s reported involvement.

“I’m just happy everyone was OK,” Lowe said as he walked out of the school about four hours after the incident, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I’m happy I was able to be there for the kids and for the community.”

Lowe didn’t reply to messages sent on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Parkrose School District Superintendent Michael Lopes Serrao said in a letter to families Friday evening that before the incident two students had informed a staff member of “concerning behavior” by that student.

Security staff then responded, found the student and quickly disarmed him, he said.

“Thanks to their heroic efforts all students and staff are safe,” Lopes Serrao wrote.

Yakots, the police spokesman, said the first responding officers found the gunman being detained by the staff member in the hallway. A firearm was recovered at the school, he added.

Parkrose was evacuated and a nearby middle school was on lockdown for several hours as the investigation unfolded. The high school students were bused to a nearby parking lot where they were reunited with their parents.

The outcome was “the best-case scenario, absolutely,” Yakots said. “The staff member did an excellent job by all accounts, (and) our officers arrived within minutes and went right in.”

Students recounted how the student entered their government class in the school’s fine arts building – separate from the main building – just before noon. Lowe had been in the classroom earlier looking for the student, whom other students identified as an 18-year-old senior at Parkrose.

About 10 minutes before the end of class, the student appeared in the doorway in a black trench coat and pulled out a long gun from beneath his coat, senior Justyn Wilcox, who also was in the room, told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The student didn’t point the gun at anyone, Alexa Pope said.

Students fled out the back door because the gunman was blocking the main doorway.

“As I was running, I was just like, 'Lord don’t let this be it,' ” Pope told the newspaper.


In college, Lowe was a star wide receiver at the University of Oregon, playing from 2011 to 2014. He caught 10 touchdown passes in his college career and had nearly 900 receiving yards. He also saw playing time on special teams.

“As soon as I heard what happened I knew it was him because he would do anything for these kids. It was surreal to be waiting for my athletes behind caution tape today, but might have been much worse if not for Keanon,” she wrote.

Lopes Serrao said the student with the gun will not be returning to school and that school will resume on Monday as usual with an enhanced security presence.
 
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How the hell you a football coach, track coach AND the damn security guard tho lol

It's not a thing where you're from that coaches have to also be employed in some other manner at the school?

Out here in Cali, coaches that can't be teachers are usually on campus security.
 
It's not a thing where you're from that coaches have to also be employed in some other manner at the school?

Out here in Cali, coaches that can't be teachers are usually on campus security.

We had teacher/coaches but our security was always an actual police officer
 
I don’t see the media celebrating this hero..
I see what u sayin but its got to the point we see mass shootings/school shootings everyday in america.

If there isnt a bodycount the story isnt gonna catch.

Now if the gunman killed a couple ppl then he got tackled i bet this would be all over cnn.

But no bodies... No story
 
I see what u sayin but its got to the point we see mass shootings/school shootings everyday in america.

If there isnt a bodycount the story isnt gonna catch.

Now if the gunman killed a couple ppl then he got tackled i bet this would be all over cnn.

But no bodies... No story
I don’t buy that but I see what you’re saying.
 
I see what u sayin but its got to the point we see mass shootings/school shootings everyday in america.

If there isnt a bodycount the story isnt gonna catch.

Now if the gunman killed a couple ppl then he got tackled i bet this would be all over cnn.

But no bodies... No story

And they would also be all over it if he had shot the student instead of tackling him

I’m so thankful he didn’t, because we would get a solid two weeks of “This is why we need to arm teachers!! This is what we mean by good guys with guns!!”
 
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https://www.opb.org/news/article/angel-granados-diaz-parkrose-shotgun-to-school-pleads-guilty/

The former Parkrose High School student who carried a firearm into the school in May pleaded guilty to two charges related to having a loaded gun in a public place.

Angel Granados-Diaz, 19, appeared in Multnomah County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon wearing blue jail scrubs and escorted by two corrections deputies. He’s remained in custody since May 17, when he was arrested.

Both prosecutors and Granados-Diaz’s defense attorney stressed in court that despite how it appeared what actually happened at Parkrose High was not a thwarted school shooting, but a suicide attempt by a young man struggling with his mental health. And they said that Granados-Diaz only poses a danger to himself, not the public.

“The evidence he was at Parkrose High School to commit suicide is overwhelming,” Adam Thayne, Granados-Diaz’s attorney, said in court Thursday. “It is also overwhelming that he was there to hurt himself and no body else.”

Granados-Diaz pleaded to a felony charge of possessing a firearm in a public building and a misdemeanor charge of possession of a loaded firearm in a public place.

As part of the plea agreement, Granados-Diaz will spend 36 months on probation and receive mental health and substance abuse treatment.

He’s required to complete 64 hours of community service and is prohibited from owning firearms. He’s also barred from entering Parkrose High School or contacting any of the school’s students without permission.

Granados-Diaz had faced an additional count of possession of a weapon in a public building and recklessly endangering another person, but those charges were dropped as part of the agreement reached with prosecutors.
 
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