10 KILLED IN LATEST SCHOOL SHOOTING
Football player arrested as Texas campus joins grim list
SANTA FE, Texas — The year was winding down. Prom came and went, and on Tuesday seniors got their caps and gowns for graduation in two weeks. It was almost time to say farewell, not just to their teachers and friends, but to a world and a year of active-shooter drills, lockdowns and classroom dread.
But on Friday morning, before they could cross that finish line, the deepest fears of every American teacher, parent and student once again came true. This time, the school is named Santa Fe High School.
Around 7:30 a.m., authorities said, a 17-year-old junior named Dimitrios Pagourtzis, armed with a shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver he’d taken from his father, opened fire, killing 10 people — mostly students — and wounding 10 others at the school, which is about 35 miles southeast of downtown Houston.
One of the wounded was a school police officer, John Barnes, who had retired from big-city police work at the Houston Police Department for a job that would let him spend more time with his family. Santa Fe High School was just the place for that, until now.
After running inside the school to engage the shooter, Barnes was shot in both arms and lost so much blood that his heart stopped twice — once on the way to the hospital and once in surgery — before doctors revived
As of Friday, this year has seen two of the worst school shootings in history.