Newly released surveillance footage shows the moment an Oregon high school football coach disarmed a student carrying a loaded shotgun inside the school.
Parkrose High School football coach Keanon Lowe disarmed Angel Granados-Diaz in May after Granados-Diaz, who was 18 at the time, suffered a mental breakdown and arrived at school with a shotgun loaded with one shell.
The video is taken from a hallway camera and shows Granados-Diaz enter a classroom with the gun a short time after Lowe. Several seconds after Granados-Diaz enters the classroom, Lowe is seen walking the high schooler back into the hallway while hugging him. Lowe gets the gun from Granados-Diaz and hands it off to another teacher, who leaves as the coach continues to hug and talk to Granados-Diaz.
The video confirms the account Lowe gave of the incident in a press conference in May.
Lowe, who also works as a security guard for the school, went to the fine arts building in response to a call about Granados-Diaz.
“I walk in there, I get to the classroom, I’m in the classroom for 15, 20 seconds — you know, I ask the teacher, ‘Is the student here?'” Lowe said. “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.”
“I lunged for the gun, put two hands on the gun. He had his two hands on the gun, and obviously, the kids are running out of the classroom and screaming,” Lowe said.
Lowe stayed with Granados-Diaz for about 10 minutes until police officers arrived and arrested the high school student.
“I felt compassion for him; a lot of times, especially when you’re young, you don’t realize what you’re doing until it’s over,” Low said.
