The teenage gunman studied school shooters, admired Adolf Hitler and wrote a manifesto railing against "foreign infiltration". The police said he most likely planned his rampage for the fifth anniversary of the Norway attacks.
Feis, the assistant football coach, used his body to shield students from the gunman, the school's head football coach, Willis May, told the Sun-Sentinel.
As the police broadened the search for the fleeing gunman, 13 schools — 11 in Queens and 2 in Floral Park on Long Island — were placed for at least part of the day on a kind of lockdown, in which students and staff members were not permitted outdoors but classes continued, school officials said.
Local media also reported instances of gunmen entering schools to seize children in the city.
And then, if a deranged gunman attacks the school, it will be up to the school's janitors to bravely throw their bodies in harm's way.
And, before you know it, even more: 26 dead in massacre at elementary school; gunman kills nine at church Bible study; active shooter has YouTube headquarters on lockdown.
A gunman entered the school, killing 26 people, including his sister, 27 years old.
The gunman shot a school police officer who approached him, then talked with other officers, offering to surrender.
But even many educators who have faced off with a school gunman oppose the president's idea.
— A spokesman for the family of Adam Lanza, the gunman in the school massacre here, identified Mr. Lanza's father on Monday as the person who claimed his body.
Witnesses said panic broke out as the masked gunman entered the school, the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, and started firing in a classroom where students were taking an exam.
