No doubt that wanker Lapierre (and gullible fuckers like Earl) will be crowing about how the "good guy with the gun stopped the bad guy with the gun" instead of focusing on the more important fact that yet another fucking teenager got hold of a gun and shot more pupils.

A gunman who opened fire inside a US school and shot two fellow students has died after exchanging gunfire with a campus security officer, the County Sheriff confirmed.

The school day had barely begun today at Great Mills High School in Lexington Park, Maryland, when two teenage students were shot and critically wounded in a corridor.

The student shooter, who has not yet been identified, was also wounded when he was shot following a gunfire exchange with a school security officer.

It was not immediately clear whether the officer's bullet killed the gunman.

The officer was shot at but not harmed, police confirmed.

Sheriff Cameron told a news conference: "Our school resource officer who was stationed inside the school was alerted to the event and the shots being fired.

"He pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter; during that engagement he fired a round at the shooter. Simultaneously, the shooter fired a round as well."

Students reported 'everyone screaming and running' as they begged people to pray for them and, unable to grasp what had happened, asked "why us?"

The two students who were shot, a male and a female, were taken to hospital in a critical condition.

The shooter, who was also in a critical condition and was taken to get medical attention, has died, the county sheriff said.

Great Mills High School was put on lockdown following the shooting, and Maryland State Police responded quickly to the incident.

They asked parents to stay away from the school but said the incident was contained.

Parents were instead told to report to Leonardtown High School where students were to be taken following an evacuation.

About 1,600 pupils were escorted off the campus by police, classroom by classroom.

According to the Washington Post, Cpl. Julie Yingling, a spokeswoman for the St Mary's County Sheriff's Office, said at 8.15am that officials were called to " a shooting at Great Mills High School".

She described the situation as "fluid".

A young woman named Mollie Davis, who identified herself as a student at Great Mills High School, posted on Twitter: "Please pray for us.

"There was a loud sound and everyone started screaming and running."

She added: "You never think it'll be your school and then it is.

"Great Mills is a wonderful school and somewhere I am proud to go. Why us?"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-new...yland-12219364