MD - Shooting at Great Mills High School, 20 March 2018

The school resource officer, Deputy Blaine Gaskill, was alerted of the shooting, immediately responded and engaged the shooter. Gaskill, who is also a SWAT team member, was not injured in the shooting.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/2...g-at-great-mills-high-school-in-maryland.html

Blef said:

Prayers for ALL involved in this. So sad. How did he get hold of the gun?

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Agree, wondering whose gun he used?

Investigators were still looking into possible motives on Tuesday afternoon, but Sheriff Tim Cameron told reporters that he believed the 16-year-old female victim had a previous relationship with Rollins. The connection, if any, between the male victim and the alleged shooter remained unknown.

http://www.newsweek.com/who-what-we-know-maryland-great-mills-shooter-853188

Very strange.

BayouBelle_LA said:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/aust...and-school-suspect-facebook-instagram-photos/

Police say Austin Wyatt Rollins brought a Glock semi-automatic handgun to his school in Maryland, and shot a female student in the hallway before classes began on Tuesday, March 20. According to the St. Mary County Sheriff Tim Cameron, Rollins, 17, was transported to Charles Regional Medical Center where he later died.

Austin Wyatt Rollins was an honor student at Great Mills. His Facebook page shows that he lived in Lexington Park, Maryland, and was a Nascar fan.

Rollins was born in Tennessee and moved to Maryland with his family in 2004. His dad, Rocky Rollins, is from Nebraska served in the Air Force.

Authorities say that Rollins entered the school and shot a 16-year-old female student in the hallway. During that shooting, a bullet hit a 14-year-old male student who was nearby.

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Just a wild guess that it was his dad’s. If that’s the case, the dad should be charged, imho. He was in the military, for God’s sakes!
He should know gun safety.

Blef said:

Prayers for ALL involved in this. So sad. How did he get hold of the gun?

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Sadly, it shows those who are hellbent on harming others does not follow the rule of law. They never have and never will. History has shown that to be painfully true. Most homicides are done when the suspect/s has illegally obtained them.

While I imagine it belonged to someone in his home it is so easy nowadays to obtain an illegal weapon for very little money.

I am just so thankful they had an armed resource officer there who was at the shooting scene within a minute and eliminate the threat immediately. Until the Parkland shooting I had never heard of any officers cowardly hiding and not entering immediately as they are all trained to do and do so when the situation presents itself day in and day out in our country. Our officers run toward danger while others run away.

Scott Peterson, the school officer in Parkland is far from the norm that he is an oddball. That is why he immediately retired because he knew if he did not he would be fired and lose all benefits, rightly so. Although until that investigation of the sheriff's department is completed there may have been instructions to stand down and not enter the school by the higher ups before the shooting even happened. We will have to see what is uncovered once the investigation is over.

99.9% of armed officers in schools are just like this heroic officer and will do whatever it takes to protect everyone there. We do not need to train teachers and staff although many schools already have trained staff who are armed.

But what we need to protect all our children are armed officers in every school who are highly trained like this armed officer. It will not only create jobs but it will let the potential next shooters know schools are no longer a gun free zone, and soft targets. This teen probably thought the officer was too far away to engage him and bring him down.

We have armed security at concerts and sporting events where children go and many other places. We have them at all of our airports to ensure everyone (including children) is protected so the least we can do is have them in our schools to protect our children.

Children know the difference in a bad person entering a school with a gun with intent to kill them is far different than the friendly armed police officer/s who are there to protect them from those bad people should they try to enter while armed. I am sure all of the students there were thankful to have this armed officer who stopped the murderer in his tracks.

IMO

"On average, there is one school shooting every week in the U.S."

Really heartbreaking to see the above statistic.

Another one?

Just saw this. And our hearts break again. I hope shooter’s dad is charged for allowing shooter access to the gun. And that the parents of the students injured and killed sue them.

http://abc11.com/maryland-school-shooting-victim-brain-dead-being-taken-off-life-support/3248565/

Maryland school shooting victim to be taken off life support, family says

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/maryland-school-shooting-jaelynn-willey/index.html

The 16-year-old girl who was shot by an armed student at Great Mills High School in Maryland will be taken off life support, her family said.

Melissa Willey, the mother of Jaelynn Willey, made the announcement at a news conference Thursday night.

Jaelynn was one of two students shot by Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, on Tuesday in a hallway just before school began, according to the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office.

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She has died :tears:

Rip Jaelynn Willey [FONT=Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:rose: [/FONT]

https://hosted.ap.org/toledoblade/a...port-ending-brain-dead-school-shooting-victim

[FONT=&quot]Jaelynn was one of nine siblings, her mother said, and a member of the swim team.


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Doghairrules said:

Just saw this. And our hearts break again. I hope shooter’s dad is charged for allowing shooter access to the gun. And that the parents of the students injured and killed sue them.

http://abc11.com/maryland-school-shooting-victim-brain-dead-being-taken-off-life-support/3248565/

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So the young girl that died was at one time his girlfriend? Agree completely that the owner of the gun should be held responsible.

[h=1]Mourners gather at funeral for 16-year-old girl gunned down at her Maryland high school[/h]
http://abcnews.go.com/US/prayer-service-held-today-16-year-girl-gunned/story?id=54092123

Willey and the suspected gunman "had a prior relationship which recently ended," the sheriff's office said. "All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence."

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