Riley Howell, 21, was in class at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte when a gunman began shooting. He 'took the assailant off his feet.'
Riley Howell, at right with his girlfriend of almost six years, tackled a gunman who opened fire in a college classroom, police say.
"You're either going to run, you're going to hide and shield, or you're going to take the fight to the assailant. Having no place to run and hide, he did the last. But for his work, the assailant may not have been disarmed," Putney said."Unfortunately, he gave his life in the process. But his sacrifice saved lives."
The shooting took place during a class on the anthropology and philosophy of science, according to a message on what appeared to be the Twitter account of the instructor who witnessed the attack. Adam Johnson wrote that teams of students were delivering their presentations when the gunman opened fire.
People reacting to the sound of gunshots and a campus alert scrambled to find safe spaces and endured a lengthy lockdown as officers secured the campus on the last day of classes.
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