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It turns out he shot himself.
...the 17-year-old who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland last week, injuring one and killing another, died from shooting himself in the head, officials investigating the case said Monday.
The officer shot the killer in the hand, but the shooter shot himself in the head.
At 7:57 a.m., he approached classmate Jaelynn Willey, 16, and shot her once in the head with his father’s Glock 9-millimeter pistol. That bullet also struck 14-year-old Desmond Barnes in the leg.
After firing the handgun, Rollins kept walking through the school, where he was confronted by school resource officer Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill just after 8 a.m. Their weapons went off simultaneously 31 seconds later, with Rollins shooting himself in the head and Gaskill shooting Rollins in the hand, officials said.
Edited to remove my commentary. That way there isn’t anything to argue with other than facts. Better option.
Re-edited to include my feelings about the officer.
The first thing I said was on Twitter the other day. I was lamenting the fact that while an officer may have “saved” someone, he would have to live with the fact that he’d killed a student, and that another had died.
I found out later that the girl wasn’t yet dead, so I deleted that tweet.
One of my first personal responses was concern for the officer who had been put into that position in the first place.