Jason Seaman, a former defensive lineman at Southern Illinois, has been identified by parents and students as the teacher who intervened to help stop a shooter at a middle school in Indiana on Friday.
Seaman, a science teacher, was shot three times after a student armed with two handguns opened fire at Noblesville West Middle School in suburban Indianapolis on Friday morning, his mother said on social media.
A student was also wounded in the shooting. Police did not identify the victims, but Kristi Hubly Seaman said on Facebook that her son Jason Seaman had surgery after being shot in the abdomen, hip and the forearm and was doing "well.