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Armed good guy didn’t kill school shooter
nypost ^ | 03/27/2018 | Tamar Lapin

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. Mary’s County Sheriff’s 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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KEYWORDS: armed; guns; school; shooter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


61 posted on 03/27/2018 6:09:16 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: facedown

Let’s see:

She was on her knees begging for her life?

Short girl/tall boy?

Or a Clinton/Lewinski positioning... /sarc


62 posted on 03/27/2018 6:19:15 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: armourenthusiast

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?


63 posted on 03/27/2018 7:07:02 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

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.


64 posted on 03/27/2018 9:10:29 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

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.


65 posted on 03/27/2018 10:23:18 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Their relative motion is essentially zero if they’re aiming at you.

They also are often within those bounds of “center mass” - though at the higher end if properly aiming.


66 posted on 03/28/2018 5:24:35 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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