But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer. (In the incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, the armed school resource deputy waited outside the school building as the shooter gunned down students inside .) "DFC [Deputy First Class] Gaskill fired at the shooter ... almost simultaneously as the shooter fired," Cameron said. Larry Hogan called Gaskill "a very capable school resource officer who also happened to be a SWAT team member." In the Parkland shooting, school resource deputy Scot Peterson never entered the building after taking a position outside.

Source: CNN March 20, 2018 19:07 UTC