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\"\"OVERTON — A substitute teacher at Overton ISD said she was watching over the in-school suspension students on Tuesday when she said the unthinkable happened on a trip out of the classroom. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I look over and the other student was directly behind the resource officer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Candy Russell, substitute teacher and parent at Overton ISD. According to our news partner KETK, Russel claims at that moment the 11-year-old reached for the school police officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun. Without thinking, she said she yelled his name and ran towards him. Immediately, she said a report was made to the administration. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI need you to go in the office and rewind the video a minute or two and see what just happened.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even spit the words out of my mouth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell.<\/p>\n

She said the resource officer was standing in the hallway when the incident happened. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He never looked back, he never was aware that the boy was behind him and that he had reached for his gun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell.<\/p>\n

As she made her way back to her classroom, Russell said the split-second moment still haunted her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everything could have changed for all of us, not me, just as a substitute, but as a parent,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell. The student was pulled from ISS, but returned to class the same day, she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He blew it off. It was nothing to him. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m used to trouble, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat are they going to do? Suspend me? We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got three days of school left,’\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell.<\/p>\n

The fifth-grade student was pulled from the classroom a second time to speak with the Overton Police Chief, who told KETK News that he has no comment on the incident. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153After school was over and I turned in my keys, she told me they saw it on video, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhat perfect timing, and thank you,’\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Russell said. This substitute teacher believes more should have been done about the situation and says her life will forever be changed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will not be returning subbing, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell.<\/p>\n

KETK News spoke to Overton ISD Superintendent Larry Calhoun over the phone, he said the student never reached for the gun or touched the gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OVERTON — A substitute teacher at Overton ISD said she was watching over the in-school suspension students on Tuesday when she said the unthinkable happened on a trip out of the classroom. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I look over and the other student was directly behind the resource officer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Candy Russell, substitute teacher and parent at Overton ISD. … Continue reading Overton substitute teacher says 5th grader reached for school officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1230021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/OVERTONISD-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton substitute teacher says 5th grader reached for school officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 21:12:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/OVERTONISD-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton substitute teacher says 5th grader reached for school officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230022,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230018\/revisions\/1230022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}