From BulldogBlitz.com:
Tuesday morning began just like any other morning for football star Kaleb Eulls.
Eulls
and his three younger sisters were among 22 passengers on a school bus
bound for Yazoo County High School in western Mississippi until a
14-year old female student boarded the bus armed with a .380
semi-automatic handgun threatening to shoot and ordering the bus driver
to pull over.
Eulls had fallen asleep at the back of the bus
listening to his mp3 player and did not realize what was happening
until one of his sisters woke him up.
"My sister that was in
front of me woke up and told me that the girl had a gun," Eulls said.
"She was pointing it back and forth at other people and the little kids
that were sitting at the back. I just thought real quick and tried to
grab her attention before she pointed the gun at anybody else. I wanted
her to point it at me so she wouldn't point it at anybody else."
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Eulls
then opened up the emergency door located in the back and began
evacuating as many students as he could from the rear of the bus while
trying to reason with the armed female.
"I just tried to talk to
her and calm her down," said the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Eulls. "She was
just getting louder and louder. I guess for a quick second she looked
out the window and when she did that I just sprung at her. I just
knocked her down and got the gun away from her. When I got the gun I
ran out the back door and disarmed it."
Eulls, who is a
four-star defensive end that is verbally committed to play football at
Mississippi State next year, was not concerned for his own well being
at the moment. He selflessly did what he thought was the right thing to
save the life of the others on board.
"I was just scared for the
younger kids and my family that was on the bus," Eulls said. "I was
just thinking things out step-by-step as quickly as I could. After we
got to the school and watched the tape I just sat there thinking 'what
in the world did I just do?' I just thought about what if this would
have happened or if this would have happened? It was just crazy."
Eulls,
already a hometown sports hero in the town of just over 1,300 about 30
miles north of Jackson, Miss., earned the respect of the local law
enforcement.
"The (officers) who have been there for a long time
told me that they have stared down many barrels before and always felt
like it was a big cannon pointing at them," Eulls said. "It is one
scary feeling."
Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughn was quoted in the Jackson, Miss., based
The Clarion Ledgersaying "If it hadn't been for this star football player, things could
have been different. He didn't go overboard, but he did exactly what it
took to get her on the ground.
"He made the statement to one of
my deputies that if she was going to shoot anyone he would rather she
shoot him. Watching him do that and him doing such a heroic act and not
even caring about his own safety, that's something you don't see every
day."
The female assailant was arrested on 22 counts of
attempted aggravated assault, 22 counts of kidnapping and one count of
possession of a firearm on school property. She was taken to the county
juvenile detention facility.
As for people now calling a hero, Eulls feels he was just doing what anyone else would have done in that situation.
"I just tell them thank you and not to do anything crazy like that," Eulls said.
Eulls
is rated the No. 19 defensive end in the nation and the No. 8 overall
prospect in Mississippi by Rivals.com. He holds scholarship offers from
the likes of Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Southern Miss and
Tennessee but has been committed to the Bulldogs since early July.
Subject: High School football player saves 22 kids 
