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<h6 class="title"><span style="color:#050000;"><strong>Teacher hailed as hero for taking down gunman at Illinois high school</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="title"><span style="color:#050000;"><strong>The shooting incident took place at Mattoon High School, central Illinois on Wednesday, Sept 20, the fifth in the school district in the past month</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="title"><span style="color:#050000;"><strong>Angela McQueen, a teacher at the School, stopped the gunman after he opened fired on students during lunch </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="title"><span style="color:#050000;"><strong>Two students were hit, both treated and discharged, expected </strong>to survive</span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-259381" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/angela-mcqueen-1.png" alt="Angela McQueen 1" width="527" height="671" /><br />
<strong>Angela McQueen&#8217;s quick response saved lives</strong></h6>
<p>A teacher at Matton High School in central Illinois, subdued a male student who shot at fellow students, Wednesday.<br />
The <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-hurt-one-in-custody-after-report-of-shooting-at-mattoon-high-school-in-illinois/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teacher took down the student gunman</a></span> after he opened fire in the school&#8217;s cafeteria. Police say Angela McQueen&#8217;s quick response saved lives. A 16-year-old student was shot and later released from the hospital, and the suspect, who the police said was a student, is in custody.<br />
The shooter, identity withheld, since he is a minor, acted alone authorities said.<br />
More than 100 police officers raced toward the chaos at Mattoon High School just after 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Students and faculty running for safety reported a shooter in the school&#8217;s cafeteria.<br />
&#8220;It was one of the scariest things that could happen,&#8221; said Braeton Davis, one of the students in the cafeteria when another student opened fire. His knuckles were grazed in the shooting.<br />
&#8220;That&#8217;s when I looked left, and I saw the person holding the gun, and then they fired three to five more shots,&#8221; Davis said.<br />
A second student was struck by as many as two gunshots but survived.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-259409" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/members-of-the-public-outside-matton-high-school-after-shooting-incident-sept-20.jpg" alt="Members of the public outside Matton High school after shooting incident, Sept 20.jpg" width="1200" height="899" />Concerned members of the public embrace outside Mattoon High School, Ill after the shooting scare at the school Wednesday</strong></h6>
<p>In the view of Mattoon police chief Jeff Branson: &#8220;If that teacher had not responded as quickly as they had, I think the situation would&#8217;ve been a lot different,&#8221; chief Branson said.<br />
&#8220;He still had his finger on the trigger, and it was flying up and hitting the ceiling,&#8221; said Alexis Perry, who saw the confrontation unfold.<br />
Another student noted that even after overwhelming the shooter, McQueen continued checking on others: &#8220;She was walking around and making sure everything was OK. And I went up and gave her a hug and thanked her because she could have &#8212; that could have been a lot worse and she made it to where it wasn&#8217;t,&#8221; Ann Morton said.<br />
This is reportedly the fifth shooting to strike a central Illinois high school in just the past four weeks.</p>
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