Education

Teacher who stopped shooting: ‘I had to save students’

By Associated Press
Published May 28, 2018 2:26pm ET
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Teacher who stopped shooting: ‘I had to save students’
Jason Seaman, a seventh grade science teacher at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Ind., speaks to the media during a press conference Monday. Seaman tackled and disarmed a student with a gun at the school on Friday. He was shot but not seriously injured. | (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student at an Indiana school said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade classroom.

Jason Seaman spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanking the Noblesville community for its support. He also praised the 13-year-old student who was also shot and urged everyone to think about her as she recovers.

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