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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) Surveillance video obtained first by KOIN 6 News shows the dramatic moment when Parkrose High School football coach Keanon Lowe disarmed a student carrying a loaded shotgun on campus.
Angel Granados-Diaz was 18 when he brought the gun to school on May 17.
The video obtained Friday from the Multnomah County District Attorneys Office through a public records request is the visual accompaniment to the story recounted by Lowe during a press conference earlier this year.
Lowe, who also works as a security guard at Parkrose, said he had been called to the fine arts building on campus to get a student. The surveillance video showed Granados-Diaz nearly cross paths with him in a hallway.
I walk in there, I get to the classroom, Im in the classroom for 15, 20 seconds you know, I ask the teacher, Is the student here?
Granados-Diaz was only steps away with the shotgun tucked under his coat.
The door opens Im within arms length of the door, about 3 feet away from the door, and theres a kid with a gun, a shotgun, Lowe said. In a fraction of a second, I analyzed everything really fast, he said. 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.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to stop these situations like the gun-humpers keep saying.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)This brought tears to my eyes even before I saw the video.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)If he were anywhere near that gun when the police arrived, this might have ended very differently.