This is how it's done - unlike the Broward County SRO that stood by while people were dying, this SRO, armed with just his handgun, pursued and engaged the shooter - firing at him and killing him, ending the threat.
So give an SRO a gun and a set of cojones, and you have a recipe for protecting kids. No deaths, other than the POS shooter, reported as of the time of this post.
Lots of respect for this officer, who put his life on the line, stepping between the threat and the students in this school. I suspect there are more like this than there are like the Broward Cowards, and I'm glad to know the good ones are out there.
Sheriff:
"Our school resource officer was alerted to the event. he pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, fired a round at the shooter," St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said. "The shooter fired a round as well. In the hours and days to come, we'll be able to determine if our school resource officer's round struck the shooter."
Cameron said there was "no question" the situation would have been worse if the SRO had not engaged the shooter in an interview with The Post.
"This is what we train for, this is what we prepare for, and this is what we pray that we never have to do. On this day, we realized our worst nightmare," Cameron said.
"The notion of 'it can't happen here' is no longer a notion."
Some links - choose the one that offends you the least:
Shooter dead, two injured after shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland
Student gunman dies after Maryland school shooting; two other students injured
Maryland high school shooting: Armed student dead, two others wounded - CNN
So give an SRO a gun and a set of cojones, and you have a recipe for protecting kids. No deaths, other than the POS shooter, reported as of the time of this post.
Lots of respect for this officer, who put his life on the line, stepping between the threat and the students in this school. I suspect there are more like this than there are like the Broward Cowards, and I'm glad to know the good ones are out there.
Sheriff:
"Our school resource officer was alerted to the event. he pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, fired a round at the shooter," St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said. "The shooter fired a round as well. In the hours and days to come, we'll be able to determine if our school resource officer's round struck the shooter."
Cameron said there was "no question" the situation would have been worse if the SRO had not engaged the shooter in an interview with The Post.
"This is what we train for, this is what we prepare for, and this is what we pray that we never have to do. On this day, we realized our worst nightmare," Cameron said.
"The notion of 'it can't happen here' is no longer a notion."
Some links - choose the one that offends you the least:
Shooter dead, two injured after shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland
Student gunman dies after Maryland school shooting; two other students injured
Maryland high school shooting: Armed student dead, two others wounded - CNN