PORTLAND — Police released the identity Saturday of an 18-year-old student who was tackled after reportedly bringing a gun into classroom at an Oregon high school.
The Portland Police Bureau said Angel Granados Dias had been booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of possessing a firearm in a public building, attempting to shoot a gun at a school and reckless endangerment.
Authorities say he is a student at Parkrose High School, where he brought the shotgun Friday. Witnesses told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he appeared distraught when he appeared at the door to their government class and pulled the weapon from beneath a long black trench coat, and that a football and track coach who also works security at the school, Keanon Lowe, tackled him before anyone got hurt. Lowe is a former football standout at the University of Oregon.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Granados Dias had a lawyer. He was being held on $500,000 bail and was scheduled to appear in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Monday. There were no other suspects.
FIRST ON FOX: Supreme Court justices confront what it will take to keep America’s founding freedoms alive
Senate Republicans plan 54-day blitz to push Trump’s agenda before Democrats seize power
UN denies working with Hamas-loving Gaza ‘aid’ group funded by American Marxist
NYC man accused of 3 Central Park rapes arrested at Miami Burger King
Multiple dead after vehicle crashes into food stand near North Hollywood Metro station
Mullin vows ‘zero change’ on immigration after Republicans suffer crushing midterm losses
Twice-deported illegal immigrant accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb: DHS
Democratic Congresswoman Threatens Military Members ‘Down the Chain’ from Pete Hegseth with Investigations
Anti-Israel agitators swarm Biden in Ireland and hurl object at motorcade
This Midterm Result Should Give You Hope: Voters Passed Wave of Conservative Policies Nov. 3, Even as They Crushed GOP
IRGC operative lands on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list over alleged plot to kill former Trump advisor
Migrants Marching Toward US Southern Border Are More ‘Hopeful’ Following Blue Wave: CNN
A New Name Has Risen to the Top of Trump’s White House Press Secretary Shortlist: Report
Incoming Congressman Says Senior Democrats Are Trying to Threaten Him Into Backing Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker
Dem Robert Garcia Explains Rationale Behind Weaponizing Government: ‘Maybe It’s Because I’m Gay’
In a letter to families Friday evening, Parkrose School District Superintendent Michael Lopes Serrao said two students had informed a staff member of “concerning behavior” by the student who brought the gun. Security staff then responded, found him and quickly disarmed him, he said.
“Thanks to their heroic efforts all students and staff are safe,” Lopes Serrao wrote.
Lowe told reporters as he was leaving a police interview Friday he was tired but relieved at the outcome, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
“I’m just happy everyone was OK,” Lowe said. “I’m happy I was able to be there for the kids and for the community.”
On Twitter on Saturday afternoon, Lowe said “I’m blessed to be alive and extremely happy that the students are safe. I’m not sure what’s next, I haven’t had the time to really think about it. But I am sure I want to be a part of the solution to school gun violence.”
FIRST ON FOX: Supreme Court justices confront what it will take to keep America’s founding freedoms alive
Senate Republicans plan 54-day blitz to push Trump’s agenda before Democrats seize power
UN denies working with Hamas-loving Gaza ‘aid’ group funded by American Marxist
NYC man accused of 3 Central Park rapes arrested at Miami Burger King
Multiple dead after vehicle crashes into food stand near North Hollywood Metro station
Mullin vows ‘zero change’ on immigration after Republicans suffer crushing midterm losses
Twice-deported illegal immigrant accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb: DHS
Democratic Congresswoman Threatens Military Members ‘Down the Chain’ from Pete Hegseth with Investigations
Anti-Israel agitators swarm Biden in Ireland and hurl object at motorcade
This Midterm Result Should Give You Hope: Voters Passed Wave of Conservative Policies Nov. 3, Even as They Crushed GOP
IRGC operative lands on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list over alleged plot to kill former Trump advisor
Migrants Marching Toward US Southern Border Are More ‘Hopeful’ Following Blue Wave: CNN
A New Name Has Risen to the Top of Trump’s White House Press Secretary Shortlist: Report
Incoming Congressman Says Senior Democrats Are Trying to Threaten Him Into Backing Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker
Dem Robert Garcia Explains Rationale Behind Weaponizing Government: ‘Maybe It’s Because I’m Gay’
He said he took his job, “I did so to guide and coach young people whose shoes I had once been in. I had no idea, that I would one day have to put my life on the line like I did yesterday for my students.
“When confronted with the test the universe presented me with, I didn’t see any other choice but to act. Thank God, I passed. I’ve spent the last 24 hours being more appreciative of my family and realizing we have a serious problem.”
Police spokesman Sgt. Brad Yakots said the first responding officers found the gunman being detained by the staff member in the hallway. A firearm was recovered at the school, he added.
Parkrose was evacuated and a nearby middle school was on lockdown for several hours as the investigation unfolded. The high school students were bused to a nearby parking lot where they were reunited with their parents.
The outcome was “the best-case scenario, absolutely,” Yakots said. “The staff member did an excellent job by all accounts, (and) our officers arrived within minutes and went right in.”
Story cited here.
