Father of would-be school shooter tackled by Oklahoma principal sheds light on motive

The father of an Oklahoma man who was videotaped opening fire inside his former high school and then being tackled by the principal said Wednesday that his son had “some kind of beef” with the quick-thinking educator who has been credited with preventing a bloodbath.“We’re not ready to talk about what happened and why it happened, but we have our suspicions,” Sylvanus Hawkins told NBC News during a brief telephone interview.

The father of an Oklahoma man who was videotaped opening fire inside his former high school and then being tackled by the principal said Wednesday that his son had “some kind of beef” with the quick-thinking educator who has been credited with preventing a bloodbath.

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