Molly Hudgens to share story of preventing 2016 school shooting

WEIRTON — Weirton First Church of the Nazarene will sponsor a visit from Molly Hudgens, who will speak at Weir High School and at the church for a public event on Tuesday. Hudgens will share the story of how she prevented a shooting on Sept. 28, 2016 at Sycamore Middle School in Tennessee, where she worked as a counselor. When a student with a fully-loaded semi-automatic handgun came to her with a plan to kill people on the school’s campus, Hudgens said the student told her they believed she was the only one who could talk them out of it. After a 90-minute intervention, the student relinquished the weapon to Hudgens with no shots fired and no lives lost. “I first encountered Molly Hudgens in an interview with Malcolm Gladwell for the Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage podcast, and I felt more people should hear her story,” said Bennett Briles, lead pastor of Weirton First Church of the Nazarene.

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