The Idaho teacher who stopped a sixth-grade school shooter says she hugged the young girl after disarming her.

Earlier this month, the shooter pulled a loaded handgun from her bag and opened fire, wounding three people at Rigby Middle School.

Krista Gneiting, a math teacher at the school, managed to remove the gun from the child's possession and subdue her.

In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Gneiting spoke about the immediate aftermath of the ordeal, which saw her embrace the troubled youngster.

She recalled: "I just walked up to her and I put my hand over her hand. I just slowly pulled the gun out of her hand and she allowed me to."

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Gneiting continued: "She didn't give it to me, but she didn't fight. And then after I got the gun, I just pulled her into a hug because I thought, this little girl has a mom somewhere that doesn't realize she's having a breakdown and she's hurting people."

Per Associated Press, police responded to the incident at about 9:15 AM on Thursday, May 6, after the young assailant - whose identity remains anonymous - shot two students and a janitor at the school. Fortunately, the three victims survived their injuries.

Gneiting told ABC News that she had been preparing her students for final exams in her classroom when she heard a gunshot. When she looked out into the hallway, she saw the wounded janitor on the floor.

After hearing two more gunshots, she says she told her class: "We're going to run to the high school, you're going to run hard, you're not going to look back, and now is the time to get up and go."

Gneiting had been helping an injured student when she saw the armed sixth-grader. "It was a little girl and my brain couldn't quite grasp that," she said. "I just knew when I saw that gun, I had to get the gun."

After disarming the child, Gneiting dialed 911 before hugging her as they waited for the police to take her into custody.

"After a while, the girl started talking to me and I could tell she was very unhappy," Gneiting said. "I just kept hugging her and loving her and trying to let her know that we're going to get through this together."

As reported by People, the girl has been charged and could face three counts of attempted murder.

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A heroic middle school teacher ran outside his home apparently naked to save a teenage girl from assault.David Garza was in his residence in Houston, Texas when he heard a 15-year-old girl screaming for help on July 28.Despite not wearing a shirt, he quickly sprung into action, grabbed his firearm, and scared off the suspect.Security footage of the harrowing incident, which took place at midnight, was shared online and showed Garza yelling "Hey hey, hey come here," at the offender before he started running in their direction.Watch the video below:The attacker followed the young girl from a bus into a gated apartment complex in Houston’s east side around midnight, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, per The New York Post.Speaking to KHOU 11 about the shocking ordeal, Garza said: "I looked out the window and I saw a man beating up a woman on the ground, and he was trying to take her clothes off."The teacher said he did not think twice about helping the victim, who was being grabbed by the hair by the assailant."I ran upstairs, I grabbed my pistol and then I came outside and I asked 'what's going on' and the girl screamed 'I'm 15 help me', so I pointed my gun at him and told him to get off her," he continued. "He took his hands off her right away, and he went chasing after her, so I went chasing after him and she got away, she went to someone she knew's apartment.""I was scared too I'm not going to lie but she needed help more than I was afraid so I had to do it," he added.A neighbor, claiming to have witnessed the scary scene unfold from her house, praised the teacher, telling the publication that he saved the teen from what would have been a horrific fate.“At first, I was scared because I literally thought she was about to get raped. I think if he didn’t come out, she probably would have gotten r*ped,” she said.Garza has since been lauded as a hero for preventing the attack from going any further.Andy Kahan, a victim advocate for the Houston Crime Stoppers, said he was thankful that the teacher “did the right thing," telling the outlet: “I take my hat off to you."Authorities are now searching for the suspect and have released a picture of a man sporting a black hoodie with a white Reebok logo, blue jeans, and white sneakers.No additional information has been shared at this time.Featured image credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty

Amidst an ongoing gun violence crisis in the USA, court documents have emerged which detail an incident involving a 12-year-old boy who brought a gun to school with the intention of murdering his teacher. The child, who has not been named, allegedly entered a classroom on August 31st of this year, ordered everybody to get on the floor, then attempted to shoot his teacher in the face.

Fortunately, the safety was on.

The incident happened at North Scott Junior High in Eldridge, Iowa, which is ranked 18th out of the 50 states in terms of gun safety laws. It is not yet known how the child came to acquire the 22-caliber handgun he used in the attempted murder, but the state's relatively lax regulations on how guns can be acquired or stored may have something to do with it.

In this case, the teacher managed to wrestle the weapon off the boy - but other similar incidents have not ended without casualties.

In February of this year, a teenager brought a gun to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and massacred 17 people. His actions caused an unprecedented reaction from victims of the shooting, families of the deceased, and people around the world who saw the tragedy that had occurred and felt the need to do something in order to prevent further fatalities.

Emma Gonzalez, one of the students caught up in the Parkland shooting, later went on to deliver a powerful speech pleading for gun reform laws.

"The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and our parents to call BS," she said.

"They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call BS. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works. We call BS."

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Since the Parkland shooting, however, not much has been done to improve gun laws, and so violent incidents involving firearms are still a daily occurrence in the USA.

In the last few days alone, four people were injured when a shooting took place at a nightclub in Tennessee, a man and a woman died of gunshot wounds in Wisconsin, and two deputies were killed in a house in North Carolina. All of these incidents may have been prevented if the shooters did not have such easy access to weapons.

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The boy accused of bringing a gun to his classroom last month had since been charged with attempted murder, having a weapon on school grounds, and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. He has not yet been sentenced for his crimes, but remains in the Scott County Juvenile Detention Center.

Hopefully, by the time he gets out, gun laws will have been reformed.

A University of Oregon high school football coach reportedly tackled an armed student yesterday, stopping them from firing any shots, CBS News has reported.

Keanon Lowe, a football and track coach and a security guard at Parkrose High School, has been credited with taking down a potential shooter who is believed to attend the institution.

No one was injured in the incident and the Portland police have not identified the suspect at this time, but have said that he is an adult. They added that there were no more suspects in the case.

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Walking out of the school about four hours after the incident, Lowe told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he was glad no one was injured.

"I'm just happy everyone was OK," the former analyst for the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles reportedly said. "I'm happy I was able to be there for the kids and for the community."

The coach - who was a star wide receiver at the University of Oregon, playing from 2011 to 2014 - didn't reply to messages sent on Twitter or LinkedIn to comment further.

On Friday evening, Parkrose school district superintendent Michael Lopes Serrao wrote in a letter to families that before the incident, two students had informed a staff member of "concerning behavior" by the student in question.

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Security staff responded by locating the student and quickly disarming him. Lopes Serrao added: "Thanks to their heroic efforts all students and staff are safe."

Speaking about the incident, police spokesman Sgt. Brad Yakots claimed a firearm was recovered at the scene. The school was evacuated and a nearby middle school was on lockdown for several hours as the investigation continued.

The school was searched room by room and students were not allowed to have access to their personal items for a period of time, KOIN reports.

Yakots stated that the outcome was "the best case scenario, absolutely," adding: "The staff member did an excellent job by all accounts, (and) our officers arrived within minutes and went right in."

After the incident, students at Parkrose High School allegedly recounted how the situation unfolded, stating a man had come into their government class in the school's fine arts building - separate from the main building - just before noon on Friday.

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Lowe had been in the classroom earlier looking for the man, whom other students identified as an 18-year-old senior.

About 10 minutes before the end of the 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 told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

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

Students fled out the back door and Pope described the moment, saying: "As I was running, I was just like, Lord don't let this be it."

The attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last month has reignited the debate surrounding gun control in America, or the lack thereof. The rampage, which is the deadliest school shooting since 2012, saw 17 people lose their lives after suspected gunman, Nikolas Cruz, opened fire with a semiautomatic AR-15 and began shooting students he saw in the hallways and on school grounds.

In the aftermath of the shooting, the Trump administration proposed providing certain school personnel with "rigorous" firearms training. President Trump also backed a bill to make criminal background checks on gun buyers more thorough, although, he countered this by back-pedalling on increasing the minimum age to buy some firearms - a policy which he had previously endorsed.

While not yet implemented a potential problem with that first initiative seems to have been raised: a teacher at a Northern California school accidentally discharged a firearm while teaching a public safety class.

A teacher and reserve police officer has been place on leave after he mistakenly fired a gun in a classroom, injuring one student.

Dennis Alexander was teaching students about gun safety for his Administration of Justice class at Seaside High School in Northern California when his weapon went off at around 1:20pm on Tuesday. The gun was pointed towards the ceiling when it was fired, and this caused pieces of rubble to fall to the ground.
Fermin Gonzales stated that his 17-year-old son was injured during the incident and had to be taken to hospital to have the bullet fragments in his neck removed. Speaking to local media outlet, KSBW, the parent said that Alexander has told the class that he wanted to ensure that the gun wasn't loaded when it accidentally discharged.

"It could have been very bad," Gonzales asserted.

According to Gonzales, school officials did not pause to check if students were injured following the mistaken firing. He alleged that his son came home with blood on his shirt and fragments of the bullet in his neck. "He's shaken up, but he's going to be OK," he added.

Speaking to The Montreal County Weekly, Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen countered Mr. Gonzales' statement, saying that the student was struck in the neck by "debris or fragmentation", not a bullet.

Despite the President's proposed initiative, teachers are not legally permitted to have firearms in Californian classrooms. Sand City Police Chief Brian Ferrante told KSBW that he's therefore concerned about why the reserve police officer had a loaded gun in the school. "We will be looking into that,' he said. "My first concern was that no one was hurt."

Dennis Alexander has since been placed on administration leave from the school and the Sand City Police Department.

Seaside High School has issued a statement on the incident, stating that counselling services will be provided for students experiencing distress;

"We want to make you aware of an accident that occurred in the Administration of Justice class today at Seaside High School. As some of you may know, the teacher is a reserve police officer. Today, during class, the teacher accidentally discharged his firearm during a lesson while it was pointed at the ceiling. Debris from the ceiling then fell

"Upon learning of the incident, our Human Resources department, school site administration and the Seaside Police Department immediately began investigating the incident, including interviewing students in the class. We will also have counselling services available for students. ... The safety of your student is always our top priority, and we will continue to remain vigilant in our efforts to keep them safe while they are under our care."

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