Student gunman dies after Maryland school shooting; two other students injured

[ehrnst]

Source: Washington Post

Two students were critically injured and a gunman died in a shooting at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland Tuesday morning as classes began, according to the Saint Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office.

The gunman who was a student at the school 70 miles south of Washington, D.C. opened fire in a hallway shortly before classes began around 8 a.m., striking a female and male student, said Sheriff Timothy K. Cameron.

Students and staff quickly notified an armed school resource officer, who pursued the shooter and fired a single shot at him, Cameron said at a press conference around 11:30 a.m. The shooter fired back.

The shooter and the two students were rushed to local hospitals in critical condition. The shooter, who was not identified, was pronounced dead at 10:41 a.m., Cameron said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/maryland-authorities-investigating-shooting-at-high-school/2018/03/20/4deeadee-2c39-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.e80063173ef1

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Thanks Republicans

and NRA for another school tragedy.

[appalachiablue]

2. MD HS Shooter Dies after Exchange with Officer/Sheriff, Reuters

report and Video (MSNBC) of school site and interview with student survivor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maryland-high-school-shooter-dies-after-exchange-with-officer-sheriff/ar-BBKsWWG?li=BBnb7Kz

The killing madness in the name of greed must end! March for Our Lives

[workinclasszero]

3. The NRA rein of terror continues in this country sadly, keep fighting them kids

[bdamomma]

4. Thoughts and Prayers???

I don't think so. This is going to fuel the movement. NRA should be ashamed of themselves they care more about profits than life.

Mr. LaPierre you can shove it. You are terrorist and a bully.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/school-shooting-great-mills-high-school-maryland-many-people-shot/

[2left4u]

5. Hmmm

Stopped by an armed security guard

[Judi Lynn]

6. Sheriff: Md. high school gunman had "prior relationship" with victim

CBS/AP March 20, 2018, 1:52 PM


GREAT MILLS, Md. -- A student who opened fire at a Maryland high school died Tuesday morning, the police said. The campus was on lockdown as deputies and federal agents converged on the crime scene at Great Mills High School.

St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said a student shot two other students in a hallway before classes began Tuesday morning.

A school resource officer then faced off with the shooter, the sheriff said. Each fired one shot simultaneously. Cameron said the gunman later died from his wounds. He said that the investigation would determine whether the round the officer fired hit the shooter.

Cameron said it's possible the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but investigators will review surveillance video and determine what happened.

More:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-high-school-shooting-today-resource-officer-2018-03-20-live-stream-updates/

[7962]

15. Another jilted "lover' who couldn't Handle "its over".

I just dont get it. Why would you want to be with someone who no longer wanted to be with YOU? Or Rui your life because of it?

[NickB79]

7. The GOP will use this to push their "guns at schools save lives" claims

If neither of the two students in critical condition die, they can conveniently forget about them and state that a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun from committing murder.

[2left4u]

8. But that is exactly what happened

And maybe stopped more from being shot....We aren't going to win this argument on the face of these facts...need to try something else

[NickB79]

9. That is not what happened

Two students were critically wounded before the good guy intervened. Yes, it could have been worse, but that doesn't negate the fact that this is a piss poor way to respond to school shootings.

Armed security is a reactive, not proactive, defense that rarely engages before shots are fired. And once shots are fired, people are already dead or injured.

[2left4u]

10. No

Two wounded by gunnan, then gunmam confronted by deputy, deputy and student fired simultaneously, they don't now yet if the deputy's shot killed him or it was self inflicted.
They don't know for sure if the gunman was going to shot more students as he's dead.

News report 1hour ago.

This is how we lose arguments by splitting hairs where obviously having the armed deputy there stopped somebody shooting on school ground.

Political propaganda from both sides of the argument will try and spin it, the fact remains that the gunman when confronted by deputy stopped shooting, no longer had access to shoot other students, and either shot at the deputy and was shot by deputy or shot himself when confronted by deputy..the take away is pretty obvious that a deputy stopped a shooter

Seriously

[LisaL]

11. Did anyone here argue that schools shouldn't have armed security guards?

[2left4u]

12. No

The discussion was whether the armed guard stopped or didn't stop a school shooting and the related use of the story by either side.

[7962]

16. Not on this OP, but yes, on others we've had several posters against it.

[sarisataka]

13. Do you realize

That if as person reads your post at first blush you are concerned that the victims will survive...

[haele]

14. From what it sounds like, there was a relationship between one of the victims and

the shooter. So in all probability, whether or not there was an armed officer on campus, the outcome would have remained the same.
Better to teach our children healthy emotional reactions to stress and disappointment, especially in relationships.

Haele