Maryland high school shooter dies after exchange with officer

MARYLAND: A student who shot and critically wounded two fellow students at a Maryland high school on Tuesday morning, died after exchanging gunfire with a campus security officer, the county sheriff said.

The school day had barely begun when the student, who has not been identified, shot a male student and a female student at Great Mills High School in St.Mary´s County before the campus security officer intervened, county Sheriff Timothy 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,” Cameron said.“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. “The officer was not harmed, the sheriff said. The latest in a long string of deadly shootings at US schools and universities took place a little more than a month after 17 students and educators were shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.