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Posted: 2:36 PM Aug 31, 2010
ETenn schools official commends reaction to gunman
A Northeast Tennessee education official says a school resource officer, staff members and students reacted "phenomenally well" to a gun-wielding man before he was fatally shot at Sullivan Central High School.
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Northeast Tennessee education official says a school resource officer, staff members and students reacted "phenomenally well" to a gun-wielding man before he was fatally shot at Sullivan Central High School.
Deputies fatally shot 62-year-old Thomas Richard Cowan when he refused to drop a loaded pistol at the school Monday. No one else was hurt.
Sullivan County schools director Jubal Yennie said resource officer Carolyn Gudger and principal Melanie Riden confronted Cowan and kept him away from students until the arrival of deputies who shot Cowan.
Investigators have not said why Cowan went to the school where his brother is a janitor.
Gudger was on administrative leave Tuesday along with other deputies present at the shooting.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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