St. Mary’s County, MD – The 17-year-old gunman is dead, and two other students are wounded, after an early morning shooting at a St. Mary’s County high school.
Authorities have said that the school resource officer on duty at Great Mills High School engaged the shooter and stopped the threat, preventing additional loss of life.
“School Resource Officer Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill immediately responded and engaged the shooter,” St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
“He fired at the shooter and, almost simultaneously, the shooter fired,” Sheriff Cameron said.
The sheriff identified the gunman as a student named Austin Wyatt Rollins, and said that he had opened fire with a Glock semi-automatic handgun just before 8 a.m. in Hallway F at the high school.