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Taft Union High School Teacher, Campus Supervisor 'Talked Down' Shooter, Deputy Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/taft-union-high-school-shooting-teacher_n_2450578.htmlTAFT, Calif. — A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into a rural California high school on Thursday, shot one student and fired at others and missed before a teacher and another staff member talked him into surrendering, officials said.
"They talked him into putting that shotgun down. He in fact told the teacher, `I don't want to shoot you,' and named the person that he wanted to shoot," Youngblood said.
"The heroics of these two people goes without saying. ... They could have just as easily ... tried to get out of the classroom and left students, and they didn't," the sheriff said. "They knew not to let him leave the classroom with that shotgun."
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