Maryland School: 3 Critically Injured Including Shooter

NBC News reports:

A student pulled a gun out and shot two other students at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning before the shooter was wounded, the St. Mary’s County sheriff said.

The gunman entered Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland, at the beginning of the school day and shot a female student in a hallway, Sheriff Tim Cameron said live on News4. A male student also was hit by a bullet.

Information was not available immediately on the relationship between the students, Cameron said. The shooter exchanged fire with a school resource officer, trained, armed deputy sheriff, Cameron said. The shooter was wounded; the officer was not. All three students are in critical condition.

UPDATE: Local authorities report the shooter has died.

Parkland students are responding.

Less than a WEEK ago Great Mills High School students walked out with us to protest gun violence…now they’re experiencing it for themselves. The state of our country is disgusting – I’m so sorry, Great Mills.

— Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) March 20, 2018

We are Here for you, students of Great Mills ? together we can stop this from ever happening again https://t.co/bkzL1FcVgu

— Emma González (@Emma4Change) March 20, 2018

I am so, so, sorry. Be safe. Be strong. We love you. https://t.co/byyhq8L10z

— Delaney Tarr (@delaneytarr) March 20, 2018

Students @GMHS_SMCPS Great Mills High School joined tens of thousands of students nationwide for the #NationalSchoolWalkout to protest gun violence. @thebaynetcom will have the full story. pic.twitter.com/1TsG0T1EnO

— Joy Shrum (@JoyShrumTBN) March 14, 2018