A resource officer may have prevented a massacre after a 19-year-old former male student allegedly brought a gun inside an Illinois school and opened fire. The suspect shot several rounds at Dixon High School resource officer Mark Dallas, who returned fire and struck the gunman during the confrontation, WQAD reported. Dallas was given the school resource officer position after the school received a federal grant to "help prevent school violence." Like Dixon High School, resource officers have been recently credited with stopping school shootings from becoming worse or preventing them all together. In March, school resource officer Blaine Gaskill confronted gunman Austin Rollins, who shot Jaelynn Willey in the head at Great Mills High School in Maryland.

Source: Fox News May 16, 2018 15:40 UTC