Aaaaaah, literacy !
Makes you wonder what kind of neanderthal wrote the article.
You sure he didn't "grab a holt of the rifle"? This was Oklahoma, right?
The gunman is just 6-years-old.
Dumb@$$ editor shouldn't hyphenate that. Only if it modified something else.
On the reality front:
Horrible that this was ALLOWED to happen, and blessings that she wasn't killed.