[WATCH] School Security Guard Disarms Student With Shotgun, Immediately Gives Him Hug

By Brandon Curtis

At Parkrose High School in Oregon, things could have ended much differently if the school security guard, who is also a football coach, wasn’t there when a student was armed with a shotgun.

The incident was captured on school surveillance video and recently released by police, although it occurred in May. It shows the security guard, Keanon Lowe, acting quickly when 18-year-old Angel Granados-Diaz presented a threat to everyone inside a classroom.

The big difference here; the incident ended with a long hug.

“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,” Lowe said. “I lunged for the gun, put two hands on the gun.”

Posting to Twitter, Lowe reflects on the incident, never thinking that he’d have to encounter an armed student.

When I signed up to be a Security Guard, Football and Track & Field Coach for Parkrose High School, I did so to guide and coach young people whose shoes I had once been in. I had no idea, that I would one day have to …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation