The shooting prompted the campus to go into lockdown and James Jr. fled the scene and he would go on to kill four others and wound two others in the city, including another police officer before he was arrested following a car chase.

Under coaches Travis Raven, Carroll Lundin and Wally Freytag, the Reagan Raiders formed a dynasty in Texas high school football from 1967 to 1994.

In 1967, 1968 and 1970 the Raiders won Texas State Championships[3] as well as being declared National Champions by then–US President Richard M. Nixon in 1970.

From pep rallies to planting the flower bed to rivalry with the RR's, the first Raider Band showed a spirit and loyalty which proved them to be truly "NOT WITHOUT HONOR".

[6] Archival footage of the school’s marching band, performing in a 1969 parade in honor of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, is seen during the closing credits of Operation Avalanche, a 2016 film built on the premise of faking the Moon landing portion of the Apollo 11 mission.