The high school principal who tackled and subdued a gunman last month gave credit where it was due this week, recounting in an interview that “I think God’s hand was on all of us.”
Kirk Moore, 60, toldCBS Newschief correspondent Matt Gutman that his instinct took over when he heard gunshots outside his office at Pauls Valley High School on April 7.
“In 37 years, you go through trainings and drills and what you should do,” Moore said.
“That all goes out the window. I’m glad it worked out the way it did again.”
He added, “I think God’s hand was on all of us, but I can’t explain why it happened the way it did.”
Kirk said he didn’t realize right away that he’d been shot in the leg during the struggle.
“We fell on the padded bench area, and he just started emptying the gun into the floor,” Moore told Gutman. “Once I got stood up, I felt the… warmth of the blood and then, I knew I’d been hit.”
Because of Moore’s selfless actions, no one else was injured in the incident.
The shooting suspect was later identified as Victor Hawkins, 20, a former student at the school. Hawkins remains in custody in lieu of $1 million bond.
He has pleaded not guilty, but investigators said he had taken two of his father’s semiautomatic handguns to the school that day with plans of staging “his own school shooting like the Columbine shooters did,”NBC Newsreported.
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