{"id":1073296,"date":"2021-12-01T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073296"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:58:40","slug":"mich-high-school-football-star-died-trying-to-disarm-school-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mich-high-school-football-star-died-trying-to-disarm-school-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mich. High School Football Star Died Trying to Disarm School Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmich-high-school-football-star-died-trying-to-disarm-school-shooter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aptopix-school-shooting-michigan-people-attending-vigil-embrace-at-lakepoint-community-church-640x427-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A high school football player died a hero Tuesday after being gunned down as he tried to disarm a student who brought a gun to his Michigan school and began shooting, killing four, and injuring eight others.<\/p>\n<p>Tate Myre, a standout player for the Wildcats football team at Michigan\u2019s Oxford High School, was fatally shot allegedly by sophomore Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old student at the school. Crumbley has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/12\/01\/us\/school-shooting-michigan\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> and charged as an adult for the murders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Three died immediately after the shooting on Tuesday, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/student-kills-3-wounds-8-at-oxford-high-school-in-michigan\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth<\/a> died the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s football team mourned the loss of the talented running back:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is with great grief that one of the victims of the tragic event at OHS today was one of our own, Tate Myre. Tate was on varsity since his freshman year and was an honor student. Tate was a great young man with a bright future and beloved by all. You will be missed, Tate \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKJCH1UWBG\">pic.twitter.com\/AKJCH1UWBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oxford Football (@OxfordFootbalI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordFootbalI\/status\/1465896101156904963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In another tweet, the school called Tate a \u201cwonderful young man who was tremendously hardworking and respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5092024539877\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tate was a wonderful young man who was tremendously hardworking and respectful. He was a tremendous football player with the brightest of futures and was an even better young man off the field as he was on it. We all loved Tate and he will so very much be missed \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oxford Football (@OxfordFootbalI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordFootbalI\/status\/1465896994531168260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Myre was already in the midst of looking for colleges and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/12\/01\/tate-myre-oxford-high-football-star-school-shooting\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited<\/a> the University of Toledo on a recruitment trip, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>The teen acknowledged the college visit only days before his death:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.9132653061224\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Had a great time at the Toledo game yesterday. Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickyCicconeUT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RickyCicconeUT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToledoFB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ToledoFB<\/a> for the invite!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReggieWynns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ReggieWynns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheD_Zone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheD_Zone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIDhtHWGPG\">pic.twitter.com\/VIDhtHWGPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tate Myre (@TateMyre2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TateMyre2023\/status\/1465027885123653633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Friends of the heroic teen launched a Change.org <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/oxford-high-school?recruiter=633030794\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition<\/a> to have the school\u2019s stadium renamed after Myre.<\/p>\n<p>The petition recounts Tate\u2019s efforts to disarm the killer, and added, \u201cTate is not just a hero to his fellow students at Oxford high school but a legend, his act of bravery should be remembered forever and passed down through generations, he put his life in danger to try and help the thousands of other students at Oxford High School.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school football player died a hero Tuesday after being gunned down as he tried to disarm a student who brought a gun to his Michigan school and began &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}