Taft School Shooting: Teen Gunman Told Teacher Ryan Heber ‘I Don’t Want to Shoot You’ – ABC News

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)

Jan. 11, 2013

A California teacher’sbrave conversation with a 16-year-old gunman who had opened fire on his classmates allowed 28 other students to quickly escape what could have been a massacre.

Science teacher Ryan Heber calmly confronted the teenager after he shot and critically wounded a classmate, whom he claimed to authorities had bullied him for more than year at Taft Union High School.

Taft School Shooting: Teen Gunman Told Teacher Ryan Heber ‘I Don’t Want to Shoot You’ – ABC News