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GREAT MILLS, MD (Eagle News) — A shooting erupted at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland, about a 90-minute drive southeast of the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. Three students were confirmed to have sustained injuries from the shooting.
According to sources, the gunman and a resource officer exchanged fire in a hallway. The officer was not injured.
St. Mary’s County Public Schools said on its website that the school was on lockdown. Calvert and St. Mary’s country are working to contain the situation.
School buses are coming a few at a time to help escort students out of the high school.
Concerned parents rushed to the scene but because of barricades could only go so far as the surrounding parking lots to wait for their children.
“My son called me minutes after the shooting incident happened to tell me ‘Mom, pick me up. There’s been a shooting’,” said Robin London a parent of a Great Mills High School student. “You don’t know how I was feeling at that moment. To have my son to be in a predicament like this. My heart is so heavy. And they won’t even let me get in there to see my son, to bring my son home.”
This comes on the heels of a nationwide student walkout that was organized as a response to the deadly school shooting that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 people were killed.
“What are we going to do about these guns in these schools?” asked London. “Save our kids lives. No more guns in these schools.”
Police were on the scene and had cordoned off streets as far as a two-minute drive from the High School.
Eagle News will bring you more as the story develops.
(Eagle News Service, Lynn Pence, EBC Washington DC Bureau)