Our Hero of the Year: 2005

You voted, and Jeff May is our hero of the year for 2005.

The results are in: 16-year-old Jeff May is the 2005 Reader's Digest Hero of the Year.

When a young man in a black trench coat stalked into a classroom at Red Lake Senior High in Minnesota and started shooting, the sophomore ran at him and jabbed him hard in the side with a pencil. Tragically, eight people died and seven more were wounded in the deadliest school shooting since Columbine. But Jeff's teacher, Missy Dodds, is sure he saved his classmates' lives -- and hers. Reader's Digest will honor Jeff on April 7 at the New York Stock Exchange, where he will ring the closing bell.

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• • Hero of the Year

• Everyday Hero: Jeff May
• High school student Jeff May managed to tackle a school shooter and save the lives of his fellow students.
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