School shooter used his father’s handgun

GREAT MILLS, MD. >> A teenager used his father’s legally owned handgun in an attack inside his high school in Maryland, police said Wednesday.

Austin Rollins, 17, was killed Tuesday at Great Mills High School when a school resource officer fired off a shot at the attacker. It was not yet clear whether Rollins took his own life with his father’s semi-automatic Glock handgun or was killed by the officer’s bullet.

Investigators with the St. Mary’s County sheriff’s office said Rollins shot a 16-year-old girl in a hallway within minutes of entering the high school. Rollins and the girl had recently ended a relationship.

“All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence,” police said in a statement.

A 14-year-old boy who was shot in the thigh was released Wednesday from a hospital, while the girl, Jaelynn Willey, was still fighting for her life at a the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center.