St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said the assailant, identified as Austin Rollins, died of a gunshot wound after a school security officer “engaged” with him at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland. ADVERTISEMENTThe Great Mills shooting comes about five weeks after a massacre at a Florida high school left 14 students and three adult staff members dead and sparked a grassroots campaign for tougher laws on gun ownership. “It happened really quickly, right after school started,” Jonathan Freese, a Great Mills student, told CNN. “Together we can stop this from ever happening again.”Under the banner #ENOUGH, tens of thousands of US high school students walked out of classrooms around the country on March 14 to protest gun violence. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan described the Great Mills shooting as “tragic” and pledged to devote greater resources to school security.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 20, 2018 23:37 UTC