Teacher Disarms Sixth-Grade School Shooter, Hugs Her Until Police Arrive
On 5/20/21 at 7:35 AM EDT
A teacher in Idaho has spoken about how she managed to disarm a sixth-grade girl who had opened fire at her school and hugged her until the police arrived.
Krista Gneiting, who teaches math at Rigby Middle School, around 15 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, said she had heard gunfire down the hall from the classroom where she was preparing students for exams at around 9 a.m. on May 6.
Gneiting looked outside her classroom and saw the school janitor lying on the floor. After shutting the door, she told ABC News she had instructed her students: You re going to run hard, you re not going to look back and now is the time to get up and go.
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Idaho teacher Krista Gneiting says sixth-grade shooter who she hugged after disarming was having a breakdown
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Updated: 8:32 PM MDT May 18, 2021
JEROME, Idaho Idaho State Police say a Twin Falls man who ran a stop sign and struck a pickup at a Jerome intersection Tuesday morning has died from his injuries.
The crash happened at the intersection of South Lincoln Avenue and West Yakima Avenue around 9:48 a.m.
Investigators said 43-year-old Lloyd Miller of Twin Falls was driving on South Lincoln Avenue and driving at a high rate of speed in a 2006 Ford Freestyle. He ran a red light and swerved to avoid colliding with a vehicle turning left.
Miller crossed the center lane and crashed into a 2018 Ram pickup pulling a horse trailer, driven by Marty Mickelson, 59, of Lewiston, Utah. Mickelson was traveling northbound on South Lincoln Avenue.