A student armed with a handgun has opened
fire at a US high school in Maryland,
injuring two classmates.
Great Mills High School said a gunman
entered the building just before 8am (12pm
GMT) on Tuesday and shot a female and
male student in a hallway.
A school resource officer responsible for
security then fired at the attacker after
hearing gunfire shortly before classes were
due to begin.
The gunman died later in hospital while the
female victim is in a critical condition and
the male victim is described as stable.
The officer was not injured. It is not clear if
he had struck the gunman or if the attacker
had shot himself.

County Sheriff Timothy Cameron said:

"When the shooting took place, our school
resource officer, who was stationed inside
the school, was alerted to the event and the
shots being fired.
"He pursued the shooter, engaged the
shooter - during that engagement, he fired
a round at the shooter. Simultaneously the
shooter fired a round as well."

He added: "In the hours to come, in the
days to come, through detailed
investigation, we will be able to determine if
our school resource officer's round struck the
shooter."
The sheriff said the motive of the gunman
was unclear.
He said: "You train to respond to this and
you hope that you never ever have to. This is
the realisation of your worst nightmare."
A St Mary's County Public School spokesman
said: "The building is orderly and the
Sheriff's Office is conducting an
investigation."

Witnesses tweeted from a secure area on site
while other students were evacuated to a
nearby school where they were reunited with
their parents.
Mollie Davis, a student at the school,
tweeted: "Hi Twitter. I am in Great Mills HS.
My school is on a very real lockdown threat
and there's already someone possibly dead.
Please pray for us.
"You never think it'll be your school and
then it is. Great Mills is a wonderful school
and somewhere I am proud to go. Why us?

source => https://extra.ie/2018/03/20/news/world-news/high-school-shooting-maryland#foobox-1/2/Maryland-School-Shooting-Great-Mills-High-School.

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