I never could have predicted anything like that in my life,” he said. Working in a school serving very young children, Quintana says all he could think about was protecting the kids. So things became very physical and fortunately I was able to restrain him,” Quintana said. The elevator was out of service, and staff ran to get Quintana. And then instead of leaving out the front door, he then went into the left elevator.” “And the agent, the school safety agent, stood in front of him and he pushed her down on the steps. “He tried to go up the stairs over here,” Quintana told NY1. The systems will first be rolled out in elementary schools and at Summer Rising locations.

At one school in Queens, the system was installed earlier this year after an intruder got inside and refused to leave, ultimately leading the school's principal to physically restrain him.The city has begun installing camera-and-buzzer systems that will allow them to lock the front doors of city schools, a $78 million endeavor aimed at keeping children safe.

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