The student who opened fire on two fellow students at Great Mills High Schools in St. Mary’s County, Md., Tuesday morning has died after an officer stationed inside the school pursued him and fired a round at him, local police confirmed during a press conference late Tuesday morning.
“I am told that at 10:41 a.m. this morning, the shooter was confirmed deceased at Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata,” St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said.
Cameron said the male student brought a handgun into the high school shortly before 8 a.m. this morning. He shot a round in one of the school hallways and wounded a female and male student.
“When the shooting took place, our school resource officer, who was stationed inside the school, was alerted to the event and the shots being fired. He pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, he fired a round at the shooter. Simultaneously, the shooter fired a round as well,” Cameron confirmed.
The police department and federal investigators will spend the coming days working to confirm the school resource officer’s round hit the shooter.
The school resource officer was not injured and was speaking with local detectives at the time of the press conference.
The injured female student is in critical condition and was taken to a shock trauma facility. The male student is in stable condition and at St. Mary’s Hospital.
