{"id":71814,"date":"2026-04-15T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-tackles-former-student-with-semi-automatic-guns-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:56:03","slug":"oklahoma-principal-tackles-former-student-with-semi-automatic-guns-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-tackles-former-student-with-semi-automatic-guns-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma principal tackles former student with semi-automatic guns \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance video shows a school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student armed with two semi-automatic handguns. Kirk Moore, principal of Pauls Valley high school, was shot in the leg as he wrestled the attacker. He is now healthy and recovering. Investigators said the alleged attacker, Victor Lee Hawkins, fired several shots before he was disarmed by Moore and another staff member who arrived to help. Hawkins awaits a court appearance on 8 May. He faces charges of shooting with intent to kill, feloniously pointing a firearm and carrying a weapon to a public assembly<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/oklahoma-principal-shot-disarming-ex-student\">Oklahoma principal shot disarming ex-student with semi-automatic guns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/apr\/15\/oklahoma-principal-tackles-former-student-with-semi-automatic-guns-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance video shows a school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student armed with two semi-automatic handguns. Kirk Moore, principal of Pauls Valley high school, was shot in the leg as he wrestled the attacker. He is now healthy and recovering. Investigators said the alleged attacker, Victor Lee Hawkins, fired several shots before &#8230; <a title=\"Oklahoma principal tackles former student with semi-automatic guns \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/oklahoma-principal-tackles-former-student-with-semi-automatic-guns-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oklahoma principal tackles former student with semi-automatic guns \u2013 video\">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-71814","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\/71814","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=71814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}