VIDEO: Illinois SRO Who Stopped School Shooting Honored at Graduation
Video: Illinois SRO Who Stopped School Shooting Honored at Graduation
Officer Mark Dallas received a standing ovation Sunday as he led Dixon High School students into their graduation ceremony. A 19-year-old former student brought a gun into the school and shot at a coach during graduation practice, but Dallas was able to take the shooter down as students ran for their lives, police said.
May 21, 2018
Dixon, IL, school resource officer Mark Dallas received a standing ovation as he led Dixon High School's Class of 2018 into the graduation ceremony Sunday. Last week he saved them from a mass shooting.
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A school resource officer was honored at an Illinois high school graduation for his heroic actions after he stopped a school shooter from taking any lives last week.
Officer Mark Dallas received a standing ovation Sunday as he led Dixon High School students into their graduation ceremony. A 19-year-old former student brought a gun into the school and shot at a coach during graduation practice, but Dallas was able to take the shooter down as students ran for their lives, police said.
"Today would not have turned out the same without you being here, so from the class of 2018, we love you,” senior class vice president Emma Krull said from the stage. “You, Mark Dallas, are our hero, and we are all Dixon strong.”
A graduating senior at Dixon High School honors SRO Mark Dallas. (Photo: Fox News Screen Shot)
Because of Dallas’ actions, 182 seniors were able to walk across the stage and receive their high school diplomas – each shaking their hero’s hand, and one, Dallas’ son, Josh, giving him a hug, Fox News reports.
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