Texas School Cop Accidentally Shoots Himself, Is Rescued by Students Armed with First Aid Knowledge

Junior ROTC Students With First Aid Knowledge Assist Injured Officer — The scene just before the football game as first responders attend to the injured officer. KSAT via CNN Newsource

A group of Junior ROTC students are being praised for rushing to the aid of a police officer who accidentally shot himself before a high school school football game.

The three students from Brackenridge High School in Marble Falls, Texas, sprang into action after the gun of a seated school resource officer discharged, resulting in an injury to the officer's leg.

Jonathon, Ethan, and Josiah say they heard the shot and ran over to the officer to offer assistance.

"We asked if he was OK, and he was like, 'Oh no, my gun went off. I'm shot,'" said Josiah.

Before calling 9-1-1, the students worked together to secure a tourniquet on the officer's leg to slow the wound's bleeding. They told KSAT the tourniquet worked quickly and first responders arrived shortly after their call.

"While he was doing it tight, I was trying to help him tighten it, because the tighter, the better," explained Jonathon.

"At the moment, I felt terrified, like an adrenaline rush," said Ethan.

The officer was taken to a hospital by helicopter, and officials shared that his injury was non-life threatening.

When reporters asked what the students, who are 14, 16, and 17 years old, would like the moral of the story to be, Josiah replied, "I feel like basic first aid should be taught for anyone from middle school to high school range."