A high school football coach from Oregon is getting widespread praise after footage recently emerged showing him successfully disarming and hugging a student who brought a loaded shotgun to school.

Footage released on Friday shows 19-year-old Angel Granados-Diaz walking onto campus at the Parkrose High School in Portland back in May with the firearm concealed underneath his jacket, NBC News reports.

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Moments after Granados-Diaz can be seen entering a room in one of the campus' buildings, coach Keanon Lowe is captured entering the same room shortly after. Lowe then exits the room with the gun, which was reportedly loaded with one round, as he guides Granados-Diaz out of the room.

Lowe could then be seen hugging Granados-Diaz for about two minutes while also holding the gun away from the student until another staffer retrieves the gun from him.

According to a local CBS station, authorities said that Granados-Diaz had a history of making suicidal statements prior to the May incident.

“I analyzed everything in a second,” Lowe told the station shortly after the incident. “I told him [that] I was there to save him, I was there for a reason, and that [his] life was worth living. The universe works in amazing ways.”

“I’m lucky and I’m happy that I was in that classroom for all those kids and I was able to prevent that tragedy,” he continued.

Lowe drew viral praise for his handling of the traumatic situation online over the weekend.

An Oregon high school football coach was able to disarm a student with a shotgun preventing a possible massacre by talking him down and hugging him.



This is POWERFUL.



HE IS A HERO.



His name is Keanon Lowe. KNOW HIS NAME! pic.twitter.com/7RtnFyDbSs — StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) October 19, 2019

This is Keanon Lowe.



He is a football and track coach at a high school in Oregon.



Last May, a student came to school with a shotgun. Lowe disarmed the student and then embraced him.



God bless Coach Lowe! pic.twitter.com/t9Z9F6Mb1B — Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) October 19, 2019

Parkrose High School football coach @KeanonLowe saved lives when he stopped a student with a gun.



You’ll never believe how he did it.pic.twitter.com/jFegWZtBxW — Travis Akers (@travisakers) October 19, 2019

This guy... you want to be this guy.. in the worst moments in life... this guy is the standard. Amazing.



His name is Keanon Lowe. https://t.co/FvY8IPsDYm — Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) October 19, 2019

I have not been this moved in a very long time. Impossible to not get emotional watching this. We called him a hero then, but after seeing this I’m not sure there is even a word worthy of him. Thank you, @KeanonLowe. https://t.co/HtVNiq7tjf — Brooke Olzendam (@brookeolzendam) October 19, 2019

Granados-Diaz has since pleaded guilty to two gun charges and been sentenced to 36 months of probation, according to NBC News.