SEATTLE - A student fired off two shots inside a Washington state high school on Monday and was tackled by a teacher before anyone was hurt, averting a potentially deadly tragedy, police and students said.
The 16-year-old student, armed with a revolver, shot off two rounds that struck the ceiling inside a stairwell between the first and second floors of North Thurston High School in Lacey, just outside Olympia, Lacey police commander Joe Upton said.
A government teacher at the school, identified as Brady Olson, tackled the male student before more shots could be fired, and police took the teen into custody just before 8 a.m., authorities said. Nobody was hurt.
The incident marked the latest in a growing number of school shootings that have sparked a national conversation about school safety, and came months after a student opened fire at another Washington state high school, killing four people before turning the gun on himself.
"I reacted in a way that any other teacher would react and at the sound of a gunshot, ... going toward the sound of gunfire rather than away," Olson said in a statement, adding that at least three other staff members had headed toward the shooter.
Panicked students fled the building after hearing the shots, local broadcaster KOMO reported.
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