(Image source: Twitter)
BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN
He says he’s not a hero.
Frank Hall — the teacher and coach who reportedly chased the Chardon High School gunman out — spoke to the public Thursday afternoon. CNN aired it live.
“To the victims and their families, I want to say that I’m sorry. … I want you to know I was with them, I prayed with them, I wiped their tears. I know God was with them.”
Hall is Chardon’s assistant football coach. When a gunman opened fire Monday just before classes started — ultimately killing three and wounding two others — Hall ran straight into danger — pursuing the gunman until he was out of the building. As locals tell The Daily Beast...
“The gunman may very well have shot more innocents had Hall not kept after him. … [W]hen the shooting started, he offered a lesson of goodness in the face of evil that nobody will ever forget. ‘He put his life on the line’...”
Meanwhile — 17-year-old T.J. Lane has been charged in the shootings. WOIO has that.
“Three counts of aggravated murder against the shooter, the suspected shooter TJ Lane. Two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault and those will be charged on March 6th in juvenile court for now.”
According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer — Lane will not face the death penalty as a minor.