Nevada teacher killed in school shooting honored

This undated photo released by the Nevada Air National Guard shows Sparks Middle school math teacher and former Marine Michael Landsberry, 45. (AP Photo/Nevada Air National Guard)

Hundreds of students and residents attend a candlelight vigil at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in honor of slain teacher Michael Landsberry and two 12-year-old students who were injured after a fellow student open fire at the school on Monday, before turning the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

This undated photo provided by Chandra Landsberry shows Sharon and Michael Landsberry. Police said Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, the student who wounded two classmates and killed Michael Landsberry and then himself on a Nevada middle school campus in Sparks, Nev., was 12 years old. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Chandra Landsberry via The Reno Gazette-Journal)

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October 20, 2014 - 12:18 pm

RENO, Nev. — A Nevada middle school teacher has posthumously been awarded a rare Air Force medal for bravery, a year after he was killed while trying to protect children during a schoolyard shooting.

Nevada Air National Guard Col. David Clark on Sunday presented the Air Force Airman’s Medal to Sharon Landsberry, the widow of Sparks Middle School teacher Michael Landsberry. More than 500 people gathered for the ceremony at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Clark also presented Sharon Landsberry with the United States’ Valley Forge Cross for Heroism.

Michael Landsberry was shot and killed by a seventh grader who wounded two fellow students before killing himself.

Clark says the Airman’s Medal is the highest award given to an airman for heroism in noncombat. Only 250 have been issued since it was created in 1960.

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