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Teacher hailed as 'hero' for preventing mass school shooting

Teacher hailed as 'hero' for preventing mass school shooting
Megan Silberger. (Supplied)
A young female teacher has been revealed as singlehandedly bringing an end to the deadly shooting spree of a homecoming prince in a US high school yesterday.
Social studies teacher Megan Silberger has been branded a hero after she confronted teenage gunman Jaylem Fryberg in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School after he began his rampage.
Fifteen-year-old Fryberg, a popular first-year student, had already shot one student dead and injured four others when he was ambushed by Ms Silberger.
"She heard the gunshots first and she came in running through the door, right next to it. It wasn’t (a) wrestle. She just grabbed his arm, and it lasted like two seconds, and I heard another shot,” student Erick Cervantes told KIRO-TV.
That shot, he said, was the final one that killed Fryberg.
Jayden Fryberg in a photo from Facebook. (Supplied)
Jayden Fryberg in a photo from Facebook. (Supplied)
"She's the one that intercepted him with the gun. He tried either reloading or tried aiming at her. She tried moving his hand away and he tried shooting and shot himself in the neck," Mr Cervantes said.
Fryberg had left a series of tortured posts on Twitter before the bloodshed, suggesting he was used to handling guns and hinting that a failed romance may have triggered the shooting.
In his final post on Twitter on Thursday, Fryberg ominously wrote: "It won't last…It'll never last…."
Two of his victims, 14-year-old girls, are fighting for their lives after both being shot in the head.
Two male students are also in hospital, one having been shot in the head and another shot in the jaw.
The student killed by Fryberg was a girl, but her identity is yet to be released by authorities.
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