Parents Taser student who went for officer’s gun in Cottonwood Heights

Parents at the school ran to help the officer, who told them to use her stun gun. The Taser subdued the student. Photo: Sam Balye

SALT LAKE CITY — A high school student who attacked a school-resource officer and tried to take her gun has been taken into custody after parents used the officer’s Taser on the student, police said.

The student was meeting with a counselor about returning to school Thursday morning when the officer was called to help deal with a “commotion,” said Lt. Dan Bartlett with the Cottonwood Heights Police Department.

The student then attacked the officer, biting and strangling her as she tried to hold the student down, KSL-TV reported.

The student expressed a desire “to get the gun and use it” at the school, police said. “He wanted to use the gun to hurt other people,” Bartlett said.

Parents at the school ran to help the officer, who told them to use her stun gun. The Taser subdued the student.

Both the officer and the student were hospitalized for evaluation.