Scout aids fellow student during school shooting (KY)

RememberSchiff · March 28, 2019

January 23, 2018, during the Marshall County High School (KY) shooting, Eagle Scout Drew Coleman, a junior, was evacuating the school and came across a fellow student who had been injured.

"I saw him, it was just a black figure, he had a hood on and he was just looking down at the barrel of the gun aiming real close to us," explains Drew.

Drew says he and his friends took off. The voice inside his head the entire time? His father, Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy JT Coleman, who was among the first emergency responders to arrive at the school.

"He taught me three things: first you run, then you hide, if you can't hide you fight," explains Drew. "So my instinct was just to run."

"I'm an Eagle Scout, so I was able to treat him for shock stop his blood," says Drew.

Coleman relied on his scout training and applied pressure to the student’s gunshot wound during the shooting and stayed with them until an ambulance arrived. Coleman was honored with the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal for “Unusual Heroism in Saving or Attempting to Save Life at Considerable Risk to Self.”

Two students, Preston Cope and Bailey Holt were killed. Fourteen other students were shot and four had other injuries.

"It was horrible, you just can't imagine," says Deputy Coleman. "There was blood everywhere, kids everywhere."

http://www.kfvs12.com/2019/03/27/marshall-county-high-school-student-honored-providing-life-saving-care-during-school-shooting/

https://fox17.com/news/local/marshall-county-high-school-shooting-untold-stories-of-survival-and-safety

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/17/marshall-county-high-school-kentucky-shooting-a-year-later/2593728002/

Scout salute,