Great Mills, MD – A student shot and critically wounded two fellow students at a Maryland high school before exchanging gunfire with a campus security officer, a law enforcement official said.
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The shooter shot a male student and a female student at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, and was then shot dead by a campus security officer, county Sheriff Timothy Cameron told MSNBC.The two victims were in critical condition at hospitals.
The officer was not harmed, and the public school’s roughly 1,600 students were later escorted off campus by police, classroom by classroom, to reunite with their parents at another high school.
The reason for the shooting was unclear, Cameron said, adding, “We don’t know the relationship; we don’t know the motivation.”
The violence was the latest in a decades-long series of shootings at U.S. schools and colleges, coming a little more than a month after 17 students and faculty were killed in a rampage at a Florida high school.
Great Mills High School is in St. Mary’s County, which is about 70 miles south of Washington.
The shooting occurred amid a re-energized national debate over school shootings in the United States following the attack on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It was the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. high school.
Awesome that’s the way to roll
This is what the security officer was paid to do,and he did his job well.