Heroic moment a high school football coach, 27, disarms and HUGS student, 19, who brought a shotgun into class because he wanted to kill himself following a break-up

Video shows the moment hero coach disarms Parkrose High School gunman

Football coach Keanon Lowe was hailed a hero after he disarmed student Angel Granados-Diaz, 19,…

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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  
• ‘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.

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