CCTV video shows moment U.S. high school principal tackles active shooter - BERITAJA

New surveillance footage from a schoolhouse successful Oklahoma shows the infinitesimal a main subdued a gunman who entered the schoolhouse and fired his weapon.

The alleged shooter, Victor Lee Hawkins, 20, walked into the lobby of Pauls Valley High School — wherever he was a erstwhile student — connected April 7 soon aft 2 p.m., wielding a weapon and telling everyone to get connected the ground, an apprehension affidavit seen by Beritaja and The Guardian says.

He tried to sprout 1 student, but his weapon malfunctioned.

After fixing the glitch, the fishy aimed astatine different personification but missed, according to the document.

Within seconds, main Kirk Moore could beryllium seen connected CCTV footage springing into action, moving into the hallway, wrestling the gunman onto a chair and forcing the limb from his hand. Another unit personnel past steps retired into the hall, kicks the weapon distant from Hawkins, picks it up from the crushed and calmly carries it away.

Moore, who kept the shooter pinned to the chair while the limb was removed, suffered a gunshot coiled to the limb and was transported to a adjacent hospital. No 1 other was injured during the incident, according to aggregate media reports.

“We’re about a organization of 6,200 people. Good kids, bully community. Certainly don’t expect these type of situations to hap successful your town,” Pauls Valley Police Chief Don May told CBS News.

In a statement, Moore, who has been an pedagogue for much than 35 years, thanked the organization for the “outpouring of emotion and support” he had received since the attack, adding that he and truthful galore for illustration him are prepared to grip these types of events, saying he was “grateful for his instincts and training,” and that he is recovering and looking guardant to returning to school.

Hawkins, who allegedly entered the schoolhouse pinch 2 loaded semi-automatic pistols, is presently being held successful Garvin County, Okla., pinch bail group astatine $1 million, according to the sheriff’s office.

He is charged pinch 1 count of shooting pinch intent to kill, 2 counts of feloniously pointing a firearm and 1 count of carrying a limb to a nationalist assembly, the District 21 District Attorney’s Office said successful a Facebook statement.

Hawkins reportedly told investigators that Moore was personification he “did not like,” ineligible documents alleged, and said he “wanted to behaviour his ain schoolhouse shooting for illustration the Columbine shooters did.”

Police said the fishy admitted to entering the schoolhouse pinch 2 guns, which he claims to person stolen from his begetter without permission.

Chief May said that Moore’s measured tackle of the assailant undoubtedly prevented a catastrophe.

“It doesn’t astonishment maine the actions that he took, but it is amazing, the actions that he took,” he said.

“There’s not a uncertainty successful my mind that he saved kids’ lives.”

Hawkins is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected May 8.