Posted on 03/27/2018 12:35:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Maryland high school student who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and injured another student also killed himself, authorities said.
Austin Rollins, 17, shot himself in the head when he was confronted by school resource officer Blaine Gaskill during the March 20 school shooting, the St. Marys County Sheriffs Office said Monday.
Gaskill had arrived within a minute of Rollins shooting 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey in a hallway at Great Mills High School. A shot Gaskill fired struck the Glock handgun in Rollins hand.
Rollins held the gun, which Gaskill had ordered him to drop, to his head, student witnesses told WJLA.
Gaskill was not injured.
The teen girl was left brain-dead and taken off life support two days after the attack.
Desmond Barnes, a 14-year-old victim, was shot in his right thigh in the same hallway as Willey.
I was just shot at my school, he said in a 911 call released Monday, where he had to repeat himself to the dispatcher, saying again, I was just shot at my school.
Investigators said the single shot fired by Rollins hit both Willey and Barnes.
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Good guy shows up.
Bad guy dies.
Good guy stopped the shooting.
Who cares about the fine details of who shot who. Good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. That is all you need to know.
Lets see:
She was on her knees begging for her life?
Short girl/tall boy?
Or a Clinton/Lewinski positioning... /sarc
Did he hit the Glock before or after the active murderer kill himself? If the officer hit the Glock before the active shooter shot himself, I wonder where he hit the Glock?
My understanding is that a lot of shooters in gunfights get shot in the hands, compared to the size of the hands - because that is what many people look at during a gunfight.
Not likely. Hands are very small, fast moving targets.
Trained shooters aim for center of mass.
The actual hitting of a gun would be an extremely rare fluke.
Their relative motion is essentially zero if theyre aiming at you.
They also are often within those bounds of center mass - though at the higher end if properly aiming.
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