{"id":71776,"date":"2026-04-15T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student-with-semi-automatic-guns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","slug":"oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student-with-semi-automatic-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student-with-semi-automatic-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma principal shot disarming ex-student with semi-automatic guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Moore was injured as he tackled a former pupil who opened fire at Pauls Valley high school<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a> principal has been praised for preventing a tragedy at his high school by charging and disarming a former student armed with two semi-automatic handguns, an episode captured on dramatic surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Moore, principal of Pauls Valley high school, was shot in the leg as he wrestled the attacker, a 20-year-old said by court documents to be obsessed with the 1999 shooting at Colorado\u2019s Columbine high school in which 12 students and one teacher were killed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Moore was injured as he tackled a former pupil who opened fire at Pauls Valley high school Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An Oklahoma principal has been praised for preventing a tragedy at his high school by charging and disarming a former student armed &#8230; <a title=\"Oklahoma principal shot disarming ex-student with semi-automatic guns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student-with-semi-automatic-guns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oklahoma principal shot disarming ex-student with semi-automatic guns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}