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17-yr-old gunman dead, 2 students wounded in another US school shooting
Yet another deadly school shooting incident was recorded in the south of Washington, United States of America, when a 17-year-old gunman opened fire at a Maryland high school.
The Tuesday attack left two fellow students wounded.
Reports say the gunman was later killed following a gunfight with a police officer posted to the scene of the incident.
According to county Sheriff Timothy Cameron, who identified the assailant as Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, the shooting incident erupted shortly before 8 a.m. at Great Mills High School and lasted less than a minute.
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“We recently had a protest about school violence last week, and now this has happened,” said Kameron Norwood, 16, as he and other students waited for relatives to pick them up from a nearby high school.
The incident is coming amid a renewed national debate over gun violence in schools and just days before a planned student-led march in the U.S. capital for tougher gun laws.
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