Great Mills, Md.
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.