The Maryland school shooter is reportedly dead, and here’s what we know about his victims

There has been another school shooting. This morning, March 20th, a gunman opened fire at Great Mills High School in Maryland. And in the most recent update, it has been confirmed that the shooter is dead and two students have been hospitalized for injuries.

St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron told CNN that the shooter has been pronounced dead. In a statement, Cameron said that a school resource officer traded fire with the shooter, resulting in the gunman’s injury. The resource officer was unharmed. Cameron stated that the shooter was a male student.

Cameron told NBC Washington that the gunman wounded a female student and a male student. The sheriff said that the female student was in critical condition and the male student was stable.

Cameron said that it’s unclear if the victims had any connection to the shooter.

"In my mind, it's a school shooting in the classical sense, but the investigation will have to determine if there was any connection between the shooter and the victims," he said in a statement to the Washington Post.

St. Mary’s County Public School officials tweeted that the shooting has been contained and that parents should pick their students up from nearby Leonardtown High School.

There has been a Shooting at Great Mills High School. The school is on lock down the event is contained, the Sheriff's office is on the scene additional information to follow.
Parents/Guardians should go to Leonardtown HS for reunification with GMHS students

— SMCPS_MD (@SMCPS_MD) March 20, 2018

Sheriff: Two students were injured during the shooting at a Maryland high school Tuesday morning just before classes were to begin. A female student is in critical condition and a male student is stable. The shooter was confirmed dead at a local hospital. https://t.co/x0CytRkAgo pic.twitter.com/1D7enaHIwv

— CNN (@CNN) March 20, 2018

Less than a week ago, on March 14th, students at Great Mills High School participated in National School Walkout Day to call for stricter gun control laws. Survivors of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida took to social media this morning to express their support for the students affected by the Maryland school shooting.

We are Here for you, students of Great Mills 💗 together we can stop this from ever happening again https://t.co/bkzL1FcVgu

— X González (@callmeX) March 20, 2018

Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by this latest shooting. We’ll be watching this story as it unfolds.