A 16-year-old student has been suspended after he prevented another student from shooting a gun at a third student on a Florida school bus.
The Cypress Lane High School student who wrestled the loaded revolver away from a 15-year-old football player threatening to shoot a teammate was suspended from school for three days as a result of his role in an "incident where a weapon was present," the New York Daily News reported.
Witnesses have said the suspect was pointing the .22-caliber revolver "point blank" at another student, saying he was going to shoot.
"I (thought) he was really going to shoot him right then and there," said the student, who declined to be identified, in an interview with local news station Fox 4.
The intervention by the unnamed student, by his account, prevented another school shooting, but instead of being rewarded by the school for heroism, the teen is being suspended.
"It's dumb. How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?" he told the news station.
His mother, who also declined to be identified, said that if her son had not acted quickly and wrestled the gun away,"there would have been a lot of fatalities."
The suspected gunman was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm on school property and assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill, the Fox report stated, citing a police report. Further details, including why if the suspect was pointing a gun "point blank" at another student he was not charged with assault with an intent to kill, were not addressed.
Local police declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.
Officials with Cypress Lane High School declined to comment, the report said.
School district spokesman Alberto Rodriguez refused to comment in detail on the incident, the Daily News reported, only saying "Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing."
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