Assistant principal tackles student who shot principal

Luke Skywalker · Sep 30, 2015

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Police say a Harrisburg High School, South Dakota principal is a hero after he tackled a student gunman. VPC

Kevin Lein, Harrisburg High School principal, on Sept. 3, 2015. A student shot him in the arm Sept. 30.(Photo: Joe Ahlquist, Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader)

HARRISBURG, S.D.*— A high school*assistant principal tackled a student gunman Wednesday after the principal of the 600-student school was shot in the arm, police said.
No students were injured, and moments afterward the incident just before 10 a.m. CT,*Principal Kevin Lein came on the intercom to tell students that the building was on lockdown and that*he was hit but fine.
A 16-year-old student, whose name has not been released, entered the school and went into Principal Kevin Lein's office. A struggle between the student and Lein ensued and a gun went off, said Sam Clemens, Sioux Falls Police information officer.
Assistant Principal Ryan Rollinger heard the shot, which injured Lein in the arm, went to help and was able to subdue the shooter, Clemens said. He and athletic director Joey Struwe held the student, who was believed to be acting alone, as police were called.
Lein, who is at home resting after a short stay in a Sioux Falls, S.D., hospital*called Harrisburg Schools Superintendent Jim Holbeck from the hospital.
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"He is in very good spirits," Holbeck said. Lein's first question was to ask how Holbeck was doing, "so that tells you a little bit about him."
Officials said they don't know what may have caused the dispute. The shooter's father told The Associated Press that*the teen had been very quiet in the past year and thought he was “just mad at everybody.”

Ryan Rollinger in his office at Harrisburg (S.D.) High School*(Photo: Courtesy of school)

Lincoln County State’s Attorney Tom Wollman said he expected charges to be filed against the student within a day.
"I wasn't surprised at all when I heard that Ryan had subdued the shooter," said Bob Young, who was the University of Sioux Falls football coach when Rollinger was a player in the late 1990s. "That speaks to the kind of courageous character he is.*It's a scary situation, and knowing the proximity between Ryan's office and the principal's office, it seems there's a chance he might have saved his life."
Both Lein and Rollinger were nominated in the spring as principal of the year and assistant principal of the year for the school's region.*Rollinger and his wife, Amy, have three children.
Maraya King, a senior at the school about 10 miles south of Sioux Falls, said her class was one of the first to hear that a gunman was in the school after a classmate came from the hallway saying he saw someone with a gun.
"We all thought he was kidding," Maraya*said. "That doesn't happen here."
Corban Johnson said his family moved from Dallas so he and his sister could go to school in a safer district.
"It's just a wake-up call that it can happen anywhere," Corban*said.

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