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The Iowa high school principle who was shot and injured by shooter Dylan Butler, tried to distract the gunman so students could flee, his daughter claimed in a Facebook post. 

Marquis Petit says that his father J.P. Petit was "beyond generous" in his life. Petit was on a 1,350-km cycling trip to raise money for his granddaughter Éveline, who was born with end-stage renal disease, when he was struck by a transport truck and later died.