U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A school resource officer shot a teen gunman and prevented a possible mass shooting at Dixon High School in Dixon, Illinois.
Matt Milby, 19-year-old, entered the Dixon High School gym where the seniors were practicing for graduation on Wednesday morning around 8 AM. The recently expelled student opened fire on school resource officer Mark Dallas. Dallas returned fire causing Milby to retreat from the gym.
After a brief chase, Milby turned around and once again fired on the school resource officer. Officer Dallas returned fire striking Milby in the shoulder ending the pursuit. Officer Dallas took Milby into custody.
It has not been released what type of gun was used in the attack, or how the gun was acquired.
Milby’s wounds are considered non-life threatening, and he is currently in police custody. Milby did not injure the resource officer in the attack. The attacker did not harm any other faculty or students. According to Sheriff John Simonton, Milby was acting alone, and the threat has passed.
Thanks to the quick actions of Officer Dallas, Milby was prevented from hurting other people. Dallas most likely prevented a mass school shooting. The NRA’s plan of putting armed police officers in schools seems to have worked in preventing a tragedy.
“The officer was not injured, nor was anyone else,” said City Administrator Danny Langloss. “The shooting happened in the gym, where seniors, whose last day of school was Friday, were gathered for graduation practice. We’re lucky the officer was there. His brave actions saved a lot of lives.”
Langloss’ daughter was in the gym at the time of the shooting. The school went into lockdown until the police determined that the threat had passed.
“With shots ringing out in the hallways of the school, he charged towards the suspect and confronted him head-on,” said Dixon Police Chief Steve Howell. “Because of his heroic actions, countless lives were saved. We are forever indebted to him for his courage and his bravery.”
Howell also credited recent mass shooting drills that took place at the school. He thinks it helped prepare the officer’s response.
Mayor Liandro Arellano Jr also heaped praise on the quick actions of the school resource officer.
“A lot of things went right today when a great many of them could have gone wrong,” said Arellano. “Things could have gone much worse. We are deeply indebted to our officer and the actions he took today.”
Police have not released a motive for the shooting, and their investigation is continuing into the attack.
After the Parkland, Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School there have been calls to harden schools. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School did have a school resource officer, but instead of engaging the gunman Sheriff Deputy Scot Peterson hid, and 17 people died.
Scot Peterson was allowed to retire and is currently receiving a pension of $8,702 a month from Broward County, Florida. Andrew Pollack, the father of shooting victim, Meadow Pollack, thinks that Peterson’s inaction cost people’s lives. He is suing Peterson.
The actions of Officer Dallas shows that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.
About John Crump
John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%’ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on the history of the patriot movement and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss or at www.crumpy.com.
Obviously, teachers are too ignorant and weak that only a super human can be armed in a school, let’s call these super humans School Resource Officers so that the PTB can pat themselves on the back because they actually allowed somebody to be armed in a school.But in almost all states, teachers are expected to die disarmed by the PTB and their teachers union. Even when teachers are allowed to be armed the PTB want such training that the cost and time make getting permission to carry very difficult. Something like 20-30% of teachers want to carry a gun because… Read more »
The Illinois DEMOCRATS will probably give this POS 3 hots, a cot and even a salary because he was such a nice kid. The parents will tell us he wanted to be a doctor or lawyer or even president. Actually all he did was prove if you want a screwed up kid send him to the Public School Communist Education System.
Glad this happened in Illioois, one of the most antigun states in the nation. Maybe a few will realise that good hands with guns CAN be useful. In that setting, it does not seem much of a stretch to think the punk could have killed a few dozen, possibly trying to up the score from Parlkand.. sort of like some of the kids play those online video games to get a better score than their buddies. Trouble is, in real life there ain’t no “reset” button when someone dies. Maybe this punk getting HIT with the same gunfire he was… Read more »
Bullying happens. And? It is a life lesson. But when a person straps on a gun, tries to cause deliberate harm in others in such a large media fueled attention gathering way, that person just became a domestic terrorist. He is bought and paid for, and as my partner used to say, “we are allowed one upmanship!” Now this kid is gonna find out what ten to twenty worth of bullying is gonna feel like.
Another case of a kid that was beaten and bullied by practically everyone going off the rails and resorting to shooting at the ones he feared the most. What did they recently expel him for? Was it so bad that they couldn’t just let the kid graduate and get the hell out of that rat hole called high school? It’s the same story for the Parkland shooter, and practically every other school shooter… bullied and beaten by fellow students, screwed by school administrators and staff, neglected by family and friends… how is a young adult without guidance and compassion supposed… Read more »
Nineteen years old and just recently expelled from school sounds like a reason to me for the shooting. Most kids graduate before the age of eighteen and have moved on with their life either college or work.
This shooter must have had other problems.
Well too bad that shooter wasn’t in TX, we have numerous armed NRA pro 2A folks that that would have loved the target practice opportunity on this POS. I thought Illinois was nearly “gun free”. What the media did not show that I recall was the peckerwood’s race, type of gun used, and barring all other factors associated with this incident the poor youth has MENTAL ILLNESS ISSUES. But it’s not about the “crazies” it’s anti gun b/s. My ancestors came here from Scotland in the mid 1800’s and we’ve owned, carried, and shot guns of all types through the… Read more »
Now, how many years will this scum get in LIBERAL ILLINOIS ?
Pure BS.
I’m glad that things turned out well. Kudos to the resource officer. I noticed, however that the media couldn’t resist publishing the gunman’s name and picture. I think making celebrities of these guys is a mistake that encourages other shooters.