Thursday, September 3, 2009

Football player who disarmed girl with gun on bus

High praise for football player who disarmed girl with gun on bus
Story Highlights
Bus camera footage captures Kaleb Eulls, 18, tackling girl
Sheriff: 14-year-old girl brandished gun, threatened those teasing her
"I just realized something had to be done," Eulls tells CNN affiliate
"There would've been a lot of grieving families," were it not for Eulls, sheriff says
By Emanuella Grinberg
CNN

(CNN) -- A Mississippi high school quarterback is being hailed as a hero for saving a school bus full of elementary and high school students from a gun-wielding girl.
Surveillance camera footage on the Yazoo County school bus on Tuesday captured 18-year-old Kaleb Eulls tackling the 14-year-old girl while the children evacuated the bus.
He managed to wrestle the .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun from her, Yazoo County Sheriff Thomas Vaughan told CNN.
"Things could've got real ugly and there would've been a lot of grieving families in Yazoo County right now," Thomas said. "I'm just extremely glad this young man took the bull by horns and stopped a potentially deadly situation."
Twenty-two children ages 5 to 18 were on the bus to Linwood Elementary School, Yazoo County Junior High and High School when the unidentified girl drew a gun from her bag, Vaughan said. Watch the confrontation unfold on camera »
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/mississippi.bus.hero/index.html

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