'I just went into his classroom and shot the guys.'
"When I spoke to the father -- one father to another -- I told him personally, I wished I had words," he said.
"What I did tell him is, we're committed to the work, we're going to get to the bottom of it. We assured him we're going to find out the why," Putney said."We're going to give them closure." The officer said Howell, an environmental studies major from Waynesville, North Carolina, had taken the assailant"off his feet.""You're either going to run, hide and shield or you're going to take the fight to the assailant," he said."But for his work, the assailant may not have been disarmed," Putney said."Unfortunately, he gave us life in the process. But his sacrifice saved lives.
The other slain student was identified as Ellis Parlier, a 19-year-old computer science major from Midland, North Carolina.One of those still in hospital was identified by the Charlotte Observer newspaper as Rami Al-Ramadhan, a 20-year-old engineering student from Saudi Arabia.As he was being led into a police station following his arrest, a television reporter asked him what happened.
According to government figures, 40,000 people were killed by firearms in the United States in 2017 -- two thirds of them suicides -- the highest annual toll in five decades.
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