VELIKA PLANA / SERBIA — Physical education teacher Slavoljub Stojadinovic has been hailed a hero after stopping a crazed gunman at his high school.<br /><br />Serbia's Beta News Agency reports that Stojandinovic was coaching at the gym when a student told him that his help was urgently needed because of trouble in the philosophy class."<br /><br />The daily Blic reports that the trouble turned out to be a gun toting maniac pumping bullets into the ceiling and trying to take hostages."<br /><br />According to the BBC, the Ministry of Education later said the gunman had an automatic rifle."<br /><br />Stojadinovic told Beta News that the gunman fired twice at his head and missed. <br /><br />The PE teacher disarmed the alleged gunman and kept him subdued until law enforcement arrived.<br /><br />[CUT 4] <br />The BBC reports that the gunman was the only person injured in the incident.<br /><br />Stojadinovic told Beta News that although he had been wearing bandages on his hand, the wound was not a result of his struggle with the gunman.<br /><br />[VIDEO 1]<br />According to the BBC Serbia, the police later recovered explosive material in the gunman's bag.
