As Judge Henry got out of the shower, he saw a text from a fellow county official. After hearing the gunfire, John Barnes, a school police officer for the Santa Fe school district, entered the school. At 8:02 a.m., some 30 minutes after he began shooting, Mr. Pagourtzis emerged from an art classroom and surrendered. Amid the hazy chaos at the school, Judge Henry couldn’t help but think to himself how this coastal county of palm trees and farmland was now ground zero for the latest mass school shooting in America. “When she was in that crisis moment, I know that she was praying and the Lord saved her,” Ms. Lopez said.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2018 19:18 UTC