"'It's always smart to text your mother if there's a crisis,' the elder Heber said." "After the incident, Ryan Heber sent a telephone text message to his mother, who is out of town this week, letting her know there had been a shooting at school but that he was OK." He's definitely someone who could talk a kid down in an emergency.'" 'He's not the kind of teacher a student would try to hurt. "'His students like him a whole bunch,' said Heber, 70. The Bakersfield Californian is reporting that the heroic science teacher has been identified as Ryan Heber. We're focusing on information from those in authority and news outlets at the scene.
Keep in mind: When news like this happens, there are often conflicting accounts in the early stages of reporting. Taft is about 120 miles north of Los Angeles. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. He was tasked with developing "concrete proposals" on reducing gun violence after the Dec.
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The news broke right as Vice President Biden was giving an update on the work his task force on gun violence is doing. There were reportedly people still hiding in closets at the school."
ET, KABC-TV was reporting that the Kern County Sheriff's Department says officers "are going room by room to secure the school. One student went to the hospital for treatment after the gun was fired closed to her ear. The teacher suffered a slight wound from a shotgun pellet he refused treatment for the injury. He added that the school normally has an armed police officer present, but the officer was snowed in Thursday. Youngblood said that as the teacher spoke to the gunman, other students were leaving his classroom by another door. "He had intended targets, there's no question." "He told the teacher, 'I don't want to shoot you,' and named the other person he wanted to shoot," the sheriff said. The gunman was reportedly a student of the class, which had about 28 students in it when he arrived, armed with a 12-gauge shotgun and multiple rounds. "It speaks volumes for these two young men, and what they may have prevented."īy that time, the gunman had also shot at another student, but did not hit him. "The heroics of these two people, it goes without saying, to stand there and face someone that has a shotgun, who's already discharged it and shot a student," Youngblood said. The teacher was joined by a campus supervisor in talking to the gunman. As more details emerged this afternoon, we've updated this post.Īt a news briefing Thursday afternoon, Kern County Sheriff Don Youngblood said that a science teacher helped convince the gunman, identified as a 16-year-old student at the school, that he should put his weapon on the ground. The airlifted victim is in "critical but stable condition," KGET reports. The local KGET-TV writes that "Kern County Fire officials say one victim received only minor injuries and refused treatment at the scene, the other person was airlifted to Kern Medical Center."
It happened at Taft Union High School, as NBC4 reports. Now that many reports have come in from the scene, it appears that two people were injured and a shooter has been taken into custody. There was a shooting incident at a high school in Taft, Calif., this morning. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. An area is cordoned off outside Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., Thursday.
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