Gunmandeadandtwo injured in school shooting
A GUNMAN has died after a shooting at a high school in Maryland which left two people injured, a sheriff said.
Two students, male and female, were wounded in the shooting in a hallway at Great Mills High School, St Mary’s County sheriff Tim Cameron said.
The gunman died after a school resource officer fired at him, Mr Cameron said.
The officer and the gunman both fired a round and it was not known if the officer’s bullet killed the suspect, he added.
The school resource officer is unhurt.
The male student was armed with a handgun when he wounded two others just before classes began, Mr Cameron said.
All three were taken to hospital and the gunman was l ater pronounced dead, he add- ed. The school’s principal told parents last month that it had investigated threats of a possible shooting and found they were “not substantiated”.
Jake Heibel told parents that school officials interviewed two students in February who were overheard mentioning a school shooting and found that they posed no threat.
His letter was posted on local news site The Bay Net.
But Mr Heibel said the school still i ncreased its security after social media posts about a possible school shooting “circulated quite extensively”.