A football coach has reportedly died after shielding a student at the deadly Florida high school shooting

• A football coach at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shot while shielding a student during a mass shooting.
• A gunman, allegedly 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, killed at last 17 people.
• Coach Aaron Feis reportedly leapt in front of a student and pushed her out of the line of fire.
• Local media has reported that he is one of the 17 confirmed deaths.

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A football coach has reportedly died after shielding a student from gun shots at the deadly Florida high school shooting that has killed at least 17 .

Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, reportedly leapt in front of a student to protect her from Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old shooter .

Feis jumped between a student and the shooter to push her out through a door and out of harm's way, according to fellow coach Willis May, who was cited by Florida newspaper the Sun Sentinel .

On top of coaching football, Feis also worked as a security guard at Douglas High,  according to its website .

He heard of the shooting on the school's walkie talkie system, May said.

"I heard heard Aaron say, 'No, that is not firecrackers,'" said May, who also has a walkie talkie. "That's the last I heard of him."

In an Instagram post , former student Angelica Losada described Feis as "a friend to all students that know him," and "always so nice to me when I went to school there."

According to the Sun Sentinel, Feis graduated from Douglas High in 1999, and returned to be a coach in 2002.

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said on Wednesday night that "a beloved football coach is dead," but did not mentioned Feis by name.

According to the Sun Sentinel , Feis' family was notified that he had died in the early hours of Thursday morning.