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Coach deflects praise in Ohio school shooting

Teen charged in three deaths in rampage

By Thomas J. Sheeran

 |  Associated Press  

  March 02, 2012

An assistant football coach credited with chasing a teenage gunman from an Ohio school said yesterday that that he wanted families of the three children slain in a shooting spree to know that he comforted the teens as they lay dying after the attack. “I want you to know I was with them. I prayed with them. I wiped their tears and I know God was with them,’’ an emotional Frank Hall said during a news conference shortly after the 17-year-old suspect was charged in the rampage.

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