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Megan Silberberger likely didn’t ever envision her job requiring this kind of heroism.<\/p>\n

When a young freshman high school student began shooting at classmates this past week in Marysville, Wash., Silberberger did a profoundly heroic deed. She confronted the shooter and ordered him to stop.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/26\/us\/washington-school-shooting\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2<\/p>\n

Witnesses have said Silberberger grabbed the shooter’s arm and, in effect, neutralized him, if only for a moment.<\/p>\n

The boy, Jaylen Fryberg, would then turn\u00a0the gun on himself and end his life.<\/p>\n

One other student by then had been shot dead and four others had been wounded.<\/p>\n

The tragedy had come to a sudden end.<\/p>\n

Details of the confrontation haven’t yet been released through official channels, but enough eyewitness accounts of what people saw\u00a0cast Megan Silberberger as the hero in this tragic event.<\/p>\n

CNN.com reported: “Police have not yet said how many shots in total were fired, but there was at least one bullet left in the cartridge before the confrontation with Silberberger — because the final shot was the one that ended Fryberg’s life. A Beretta .40-caliber handgun believed used in the shooting has been traced to Fryberg’s father, according to the source.”<\/p>\n

How does one explain such a tragedy?<\/p>\n

Fryberg was known to be a popular student. He’d been named homecoming prince at Marysville Pilchuck High School. He was popular — quite obviously — among his peers at the suburban Seattle school. He also was described as a “happy” boy. What set off this rampage is now Question No. 1 for school and law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n

But these tragedies occasionally have ways of producing characters worthy of high praise.<\/p>\n

I hope we’ll know more in due course about what is believed to be known about Megan Silberberger’s actions that day in the high school cafeteria.<\/p>\n

I also hope she’ll recover emotionally from the extreme danger she faced down, likely never expecting such mind-blowing trauma when she went to work that day.<\/p>\n

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Megan Silberberger likely didn’t ever envision her job requiring this kind of heroism. When a young freshman high school student began shooting at classmates this past week in Marysville, Wash., Silberberger did a profoundly heroic deed. She confronted the shooter and ordered him to stop. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/26\/us\/washington-school-shooting\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Witnesses have said Silberberger grabbed the shooter’s arm and, … Continue reading Teacher emerges as hero<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1043,2037,2424,2944],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cnn","tag-gun-violence","tag-jaylen-fryberg","tag-marysville-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}