Students Wrestle Gun Away From Potential School Shooter, Get Suspended
A 16-year-old high school student and two others who wrestled a gun away from another teenager threatening to shoot are being treated as anything but heroes — in fact, they were suspended by their high school for the potential life-saving actions.
A sophomore at Cypress Lake High School in Florida led the two others in taking the gun away from a 15-year-old who was threatening to shoot on the bus ride home on Tuesday. Witnesses told Fox 4 Now that the student aimed the weapon point blank at another student and threatened to pull the trigger.
The spat allegedly took place between the gun-wielding student, identified by WVZN-TV as Quadryle Davis, and another teen who had been arguing with his friend.
The student who was targeted said he saw Davis with a gun in his lap. They then began to fight, and Davis pointed the gun at him and threatened to shoot.
“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” said the student who wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 Revolver away. “Not taking no pity.”
He added: “No doubt. He was going to shoot him point blank.”
Authorities confirmed that the gun was loaded.
The 16-year-old tackled the potential shooter, a football player, and two others joined to help get the gun away.
The next day, all three students who wrestled the gun away were suspended for three days.
“Those kids had to fight for their lives,” said the mother of the 16-year-old student who led the charge to disarm the gun wielding student. “All the kids that was involved in this they should have a pat on their backs because they did the right thing to save someone from burying their child.”
School authorities told the mom that her son was suspended for not cooperating, but she said he was afraid.
The students who wrestled the gun away can return from their suspension on Monday.
Tags : Cypress Lake High School, Cypress Lake High School suspension, Quadryle Davis, students suspended for disarming gunman, students suspended for wrestling gun away, suspended for stopping gunman
Posted: March 2, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
Let's see if the school board has the wit to fire the responsible officials.
Mar 3, 2013
Thats crazy. Now if they didn't wrestle the gun from him the school could be mourning the death of a child our more.
Mar 3, 2013
We have to cut slack for retarded principals, so he/she walks.
Mar 3, 2013
What does "not cooperating" mean? How they were not cooperating seems important in this story. Afraid of what?
Mar 3, 2013
The principal should want kids to learn how to make tough judgment calls. Making Bozo rules. mandating that they slavishly. surrender to all violent people is a. bad rule.
Mar 3, 2013
Tracy Perkins is the principal and looks female.
Mar 3, 2013
Sad to say, and I mean this in a loving way, Tracy is a retard.
Mar 3, 2013
This took place at my son's High School and instead of the kids being praised for taking action and relieving the other boy of the gun before someone got killed the Principal suspended the kids for their actions….. THIS PRINCIPAL SHOULD BE FIRED for clearly being a moron. We have first hand experience with Tracy Perkins the Principal and she does not know how to manage her school. The Alternative Learning Center in Ft Myers is filled with kids from Cypress High because she uses it as a crutch and does not manager her school as it should be.
Mar 3, 2013
These kids are real heroes and not the fake ones usually displayed in the media. I would like to personally congratulate the student heroes and admonish the "brain dead" school administration.-Major Turner.
Mar 4, 2013
The lad was uneasy by the tone of his interrogation, perhaps. More likely is that the school floated the cooperation claim as a "cover" issue.
Mar 4, 2013
10 to 1 it has something to do with the shooter being a football player. Jocks can get away with anything.
Mar 4, 2013
Then it's time that the parents rise up and demand for new leadership, and should that not happen, work to totally replace the school board. The parents have to demand accountability, otherwise the board will do whatever it pleases, and that's the truth no matter how big the school district.
Mar 4, 2013
Sounds like there's more to this story and I'm reserving judgement until more comes out.
Mar 4, 2013
This is so idiotic, a life and quite possibly lives were saved by the action of those students and they get suspended? Granted the situation may have been tense and any mistake on their part could have resulted in people losing their lives but nothing of the sort happened and the situation was diffused. I can understand the issue of liability if it went wrong and I can understand the issue of copycats but in this instance rather than commend them why punish them?
Mar 5, 2013
If. What I read is true this school needs to check its morals, parents need to stand up for there rights,,,, this really sucks,, bad message for kids
Mar 5, 2013
Well I guess the message here is don't do anything and let people die. Great message to send to our youth. I thought school was to help educate people on the right things to do? To the young man that stepped in; to take action in the manner you did is beyond what most Americans would have done, so take that and make something of it. Some of us are born and raised to help the people who can not help themselves, and I believe you are one of them. You did the right thing no matter what anyone has to say.