Megan Silberberger, a teacher is said to have heroically accosted a 15-year-old boy as he fired bullets across his high school cafeteria.
She ran into the room after hearing Jaylen Fryberg shoot dead one classmate and critically wound four others. Students dived for cover and others fled but as the popular teenager stopped to reload his gun, witnesses told KIRO-TV, Silberberger walked over and grabbed his arm.
In a two-second struggle, Fryberg is said to have pointed the gun at her before shooting himself dead.
The shocking account suggests Silberger, a first year social services teacher and part-time soccer player, may have prevented a massacre at the Washington school.
Hundreds of students, teachers and parents piled into a nearby church tonight for a candlelit vigil as the community reels in shock struggling to cope with the tragic loss of two lives as four teenagers are treated in hospital.
Assailant: Jaylen Fryberg, 15, was crowned a homecoming prince at school before shooting five classmates
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