Courtesy of the AP:Video shows police officers responding to shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland. “The event is contained,” according to the school district. https://t.co/p6ZPCw44RZ pic.twitter.com/m9TMfrSjyi— ABC News (@ABC) March 20, 2018
A shooting at a Maryland high school Tuesday wounded three people, including the shooter, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.
Authorities said the situation was “contained” as deputies and federal agents converged on the crime scene.
St. Mary’s County Sheriff spokeswoman Cpl. Julie Yingling said three people hurt, including the shooter. She didn’t know the extent of their injuries, but said all three were taken to hospitals and none were killed.
The Baltimore Sun reported that a student said the shooting happened around 8 a.m. Terrence Rhames, 18, told the Sun that he heard a gunshot and saw a girl fall as he ran for an exit. “I just thank God I’m safe,” Rhames said. “I just want to know who did it and who got injured.”
I held off on posting about this because as usual there was all kinds of misinformation coming out, including that there were far more than three shot, including some fatalities.
What we think we know now is that there was one shooter, weapon unknown, who fired on at least two students and was taken down by a school resource officer. The shooter and a female student remain in critical condition.
So keep in mind that the school HAS a police presence on campus and still there were students shot.Sheriff tells NBC re Maryland school shooting: 8am male student shot female student and injured another. School resource officer (aka sheriff deputy) then engaged shooter and they exchanged fire. The shooter and two students have been taken to hospital in critical condition.— Stephanie March (@steph_march) March 20, 2018
The fact that there were no fatalities (As of yet.) is good news, VERY good news.
The bad news is that it appears that this will never end.
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