An Illinois school resource officer is being praised as a hero for intervening when a former student opened fire Wednesday morning at Dixon High School.
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The suspect continued to shoot at the officer and the officer returned fire, Howell said.
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“I could not be more proud of the officer … because of his heroic actions lives were saved,” Dixon police Chief Steven C. Howell Jr. said.
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Like Dixon High School, resource officers have been recently credited with stopping school shootings from becoming worse or preventing them all together.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/illinois-dixon-high-school-shooting/index.html