A Parkrose High School student who was subdued by the football coach after witnesses said he pulled a shotgun from underneath his trench coat in a classroom pleaded not guilty Monday and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Angel Granados-Diaz, who turned 19 Monday, appeared in court behind a glass barrier wearing a green smock that indicates he’s on suicide watch while being held at the Multnomah County Detention Center. He was arraigned on charges of possessing a weapon in a public building, possessing a loaded firearm in a public place and reckless endangering.

He talked to his attorney and made no public statements during the near five-minute hearing. At least three of his family members sat in the gallery and one of them, a woman, wiped away tears as Granados-Diaz walked in. The relatives declined comment afterward.

Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Rachna Hajari asked Circuit Judge Michael Zusman to order that Granados-Diaz not be allowed to have any weapons or go within 1,000 feet of Parkrose if he’s released on bail. He would have to post 10 percent, or $50,000, to leave jail.

Witnesses said Granados-Diaz entered his fourth-period government class just before lunch last Friday wearing a black coat and holding a shotgun. Coach Keanon Lowe, who works as a security guard at the school, stopped him. Lowe, 27, is a former University of Oregon football player and also coaches track and field at Parkrose.

There were about 15 students in the class at the time, according to witnesses.

Lowe managed to disarm Granados-Diaz and restrain him until police arrived, witnesses said. No one was injured. Authorities previously used a different spelling of the student’s name, Angel Granados Dias.

One of Granados-Diaz’s friends told The Oregonian/OregonLive after the arrest that Granados-Diaz had threatened to kill himself a few weeks before and at times seemed preoccupied with death. The friend also said Granados-Diaz owned at least one gun and enjoyed talking about guns.

A Portland police arrest booking form filed in court referred to what happened as a “suicide attempt with firearm.”

In an interview Monday before the Blazers game, Lowe, who was invited by Blazers star Damian Lillard to Saturday’s and Monday’s home games, told reporters he went to the class looking for Granados-Diaz because he’d received a school security call on his radio to bring the student to the school’s front office.

He said he lunged for the gun and the two of them had both of their hands on the gun at one point. Lowe said he tried to make sure the gun wasn’t pointing at him or students, who ran toward a back door.

Lowe said he took the gun away with one hand, held onto Granados-Diaz with his other hand and called a teacher over to retrieve the gun. He said he tried to console the student until police officers arrived.

“It was a real emotional time for him and for me,” Lowe said. “A lot of times, especially when you’re young, you don’t realize what you’re doing until it’s over. I wanted him to know I was there for him, that I was there to save him — this is a life worth living."

Lowe said he’s not sure what’s next for him, but he wants to continue to help students.

“I’m excited for the work in the future I can do for this subject with guns, violence,” he said. “I’m excited to continue my work to help that next generation.”

Lowe told “Good Morning America” in an interview over the weekend that he felt he was “put in that room, in that very moment for a reason, to protect those kids.”

“In that moment, I was called upon and I just reacted and instincts kicked in and I was able to make something good out of something that could have been very, very tragic.”

Parkrose held its prom as scheduled Saturday and reopened for classes on Monday.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.

ebailey@oregonian.com | 503-221-8343 |@EvertonBailey

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