Colorado school shooter threatened to sue teachers who stopped him

[cali]

Hailed as hero, math teacher leapt to stop attack
By Jeremy P. Meyer
The Denver Post
Posted: 02/24/2010 01:00:00 AM MST


Deer Creek Middle School math teacher David Benke was doing parking lot duty as school was letting out when he heard what he thought were firecrackers.

It was the sound of gunfire.

Benke, a 57-year-old teacher who has been at the school for a decade and whom students call "Dr. Benke," walked toward the sound and saw a man stooped over a rifle filling the chamber with another round.

"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab him before he got a second shot off," Benke said from his home in Littleton. "I grabbed him, and I think he dropped the gun. Basically we danced around."

Another math teacher, Norm Hanne, ran into the fray and wrestled with the shooter, Hanne on top and Benke on the bottom. A third teacher,
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Becky Brown, came and grabbed the gun. Hanne declined to comment; Brown could not be reached.

After being subdued, the shooter "said he was going to sue us," Benke recalled.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/frontpage/ci_14458672#ixzz0gS8AIN9E

[chemenger]

1. Only in America ...

:banghead:

[hlthe2b]

2. It seems disturbingly clear the guy had been mentally ill

for some time... at least from local coverage.

[Fumesucker]

3. Stop me before I sue again.. n/t

[raccoon]

4. Hopefully if that happens it'll be thrown out of court. nt