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- Footage shows the moment a hero football coach disarmed and embraced a suicidal student who brought a loaded into class at Parkrose High School
- Keanon Lowe, a Former University of Oregon football star, had wrestled with student Angel Granados-Diaz, 19, for the weapon during the May 17 incident
- Footage has emerged of Lowe hugging and comforting Diaz, who was suicidal
- Diaz wanted to take his own life following a break-up and had been depressed
- He pleaded guilty to felony possession of a firearm in a public building was given three years’ probation on Thursday Â
- ‘I told him I was there to save him, I was there for a reason and this was a life worth living,’ Lowe, a coach at the school, told reporters afterwards
Moving footage shows the moment a hero football coach disarmed and embraced a suicidal student who brought a loaded gun into class at a Portland High School.
Keanon Lowe, a Former University of Oregon football star, had wrestled with student Angel Granados-Diaz, 19, for the weapon as other students ran screaming out a back door during the May 17 incident.
Now footage has emerged of Lowe, 27, wrapping Granados-Diaz, 19, in a bear-hug as he hands the shotgun to a teacher who can be seen removing it from Parkrose High School.
As was written, a true hero. I hope the kid got help.