http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bs-md-st-marys-shooting-20180320-story.html
ast Wednesday, students from Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland joined a nationwide “school walkout” to call for an end to gun violence and more school safety measures.
On Tuesday morning, those same students were evacuated from their own school after gunfire rang out.
The suspected gunman, 17-year-old student Austin Wyatt Rollins, was pronounced dead hours later at a local hospital. Two teenage students were being treated for their injuries — one, Jaelynn Willey, was in critical condition — and a school resource officer who fired at the gunman was unharmed.
“This is what we train for. This is what we prepare for and this is what we pray we never have to do,” said St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron. “And on this day we realized our worst nightmare that our greatest asset — our children — were attacked in a bastion of safety and security, one of our schools.”
The entire incident played out in less than a minute at 7:55 a.m. in a hallway at Great Mills, a school 90 miles south of Baltimore that enrolls about 1,600 students.
Cameron said Rollins fired a Glock 9-millimeter gun at a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, who was later identified as Willey. There’s “an indication that a prior relationship existed between the shooter and the female victim,” Cameron said, an angle that investigators were pursuing Tuesday.
The school’s resource officer, Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill, responded quickly to the scene and “engaged” the shooter, Cameron said. As Gaskill fired at Rollins, Rollins “almost simultaneously” fired his gun, Cameron said.
Investigators are still trying to determine which bullets struck which individuals.
Willey suffered life-threatening injuries and was in critical condition at the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center, while the 14-year-old boy was in good condition at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital.
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ast Wednesday, students from Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland joined a nationwide “school walkout” to call for an end to gun violence and more school safety measures.
On Tuesday morning, those same students were evacuated from their own school after gunfire rang out.
The suspected gunman, 17-year-old student Austin Wyatt Rollins, was pronounced dead hours later at a local hospital. Two teenage students were being treated for their injuries — one, Jaelynn Willey, was in critical condition — and a school resource officer who fired at the gunman was unharmed.
“This is what we train for. This is what we prepare for and this is what we pray we never have to do,” said St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron. “And on this day we realized our worst nightmare that our greatest asset — our children — were attacked in a bastion of safety and security, one of our schools.”
The entire incident played out in less than a minute at 7:55 a.m. in a hallway at Great Mills, a school 90 miles south of Baltimore that enrolls about 1,600 students.
Cameron said Rollins fired a Glock 9-millimeter gun at a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, who was later identified as Willey. There’s “an indication that a prior relationship existed between the shooter and the female victim,” Cameron said, an angle that investigators were pursuing Tuesday.
The school’s resource officer, Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill, responded quickly to the scene and “engaged” the shooter, Cameron said. As Gaskill fired at Rollins, Rollins “almost simultaneously” fired his gun, Cameron said.
Investigators are still trying to determine which bullets struck which individuals.
Willey suffered life-threatening injuries and was in critical condition at the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center, while the 14-year-old boy was in good condition at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital.
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