Maryland High-School Shooting: Two Students Injured, Assailant Dead
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP/Meredith) — A teenager with a handgun shot a girl inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with a school resource officer, a sheriff said.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by the officer’s bullet, St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said.
The 16-year-old girl was hospitalized with a life-threatening wound, the sheriff said. A 14-year-old boy also suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh, but it wasn’t clear who shot him. He was in good condition. The officer, who doubles as a SWAT team member, was unharmed.
“This is what we train for, this is what we prepare for, and this is what we pray that we never have to do. On this day, we realized our worst nightmare,” Cameron said.
“The notion of ‘it can’t happen here’ is no longer a notion.”
The school was on lockdown for a brief time, and students were evacuated from Great Mills High School to a reunification center at a nearby high school, the school system said.
