Mississippi ? The mother of a Mississippi high school football standout says she wasn’t surprised to hear he wrestled a loaded gun from a 14-year-old girl on school bus.

Ora Eulls said Kaleb Eulls’ four sisters and two cousins were also on the Yazoo County School District bus when the unnamed girl pulled a semiautomatic handgun out of her flower-print bag after boarding the bus on Tuesday.

“I always taught all of them to look out for each other and others,” Ora Eulls said Thursday. “It was a good thing because he saved other lives. But he could have lost his life saving their lives.”

The 6-foot-4, 255-pound Kaleb Eulls approached the girl, tackled her and wrestled the gun out of her hand.

The athlete, who plans to play football at Mississippi State University, said he was sleeping when one of his sisters on the bus shook him awake.