Police fatally shoot man holding California teacher hostage
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A SWAT team shot and killed a man who held a 70-year-old first-grade teacher hostage at his daughter’s Southern California school during what his family said was an emotional crisis.
The parent, who died at a hospital, was identified by Riverside authorities late Tuesday as Luvelle Kennon, 27, but no other information about him was released.
Exactly how the incident at Castle View Elementary School began was not clear, but it quickly became violent. An unidentified male substitute teacher suffered a broken nose and other facial injuries while trying to intervene, a police spokesman said, calling him a hero.
“He did everything he could to try to prevent the suspect from taking the teacher into the classroom and being held hostage, to the point where he got hit in the face pretty good,” Officer Ryan Railsback said.