The Week (US)

Great Mills, Md.

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School shooting: A Maryland student shot and injured a fellow classmate at Great Mills High School this week before being confronted by an armed school resource officer who helped stop the shooting. Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, opened fire with a Glock 9 mm handgun days after his classmates participat­ed in a nationwide school walkout to protest gun violence. He targeted a 16-year-old female student with whom he’d had a prior relationsh­ip, said police, leaving her with life-threatenin­g injuries. Within less than a minute, Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill confronted the shooter, firing a round as Rollins fired back. Rollins was injured and later pronounced dead— though police said it wasn’t clear whether Gaskill’s shot had hit the gunman, or which of the two was responsibl­e for shooting another male student, age 14, who was transporte­d to the hospital in stable condition.

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