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Another school shooting... Sawed off Shotgun ... 2 suspects

Melensdad

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WTF is going on in society today?

Story still unfolding.

Pressure Cooker BOMBS found around the school. Apparently none detonated.

One student is in custody. Apparently used a sawed off shotgun.

Another "Person of Interest" has been detained and questioned. Not sure if he was released, still being questioned, etc.

Suspect photo below.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/santa-fe-high-school-shooting-today-2018-05-18-live-stream-updates/

Multiple fatalities reported after Texas high school shooting - live updates
CBS/AP May 18, 2018, 2:40 PM
SANTA FE, Texas -- As many as 10 people were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. School district Police Chief Walter Braun said that explosive devices were found in Santa Fe High School and the surrounding area.

The suspect in custody was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, of Santa Fe, according to law enforcement sources. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a male suspect was in custody and a person of interest was detained and questioned. He didn't identify the two but said both were believed to be students at the school.

Police found pressure cookers and pipe bombs around the school, a law enforcement source told CBS News.

There was an active search for explosives, a federal law enforcement source told CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues. Authorities were in the process of rendering them safe and asked the public to call 911 if they see anything suspicious.

Sources confirmed to Pegues that authorities were searching property related to the suspect.

Gonzalez said eight to 10 people, most of them students, were killed. He could not be precise about the number of deaths at the high school, which went on lockdown around 8 a.m.

"We experienced an unthinkable tragedy at our high school this morning," Superintendent Leigh Wall said in a message posted to Facebook.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis in photos from his social media accounts
Two students and a school resource officer were shot and injured in the shooting, CBS News has learned. Another law enforcement officer was also injured but was not shot.

One hospital reported treating eight wounded patients. Six were treated and released. One was listed in critical condition, and another in fair condition.

"We hope the worst is over and I really can't say any more about that because it would be pure speculation," Assistant Principal Cris Richardson told media outlets at the scene.

Student Damon Rabon told CBSN that he looked out his classroom door with a substitute teacher after hearing several loud bangs and saw the gunman.

"Black trench coat, short kind of guy, had a sawed-off shotgun," Damon said.

The substitute teacher then pulled the fire alarm in the hopes of alerting students and faculty in other areas of the school and getting them to evacuate.

Tyler Turner, a senior at the school, told KHOU-TV that his friend saw "some kid" with a gun. When teachers and students were outside after the fire alarm was pulled, shots were fired, Tyler said.

"As soon as the alarms went off, everybody just started running outside," 10th-grader Dakota Shrader told reporters, "and next thing you know everybody looks, and you hear boom, boom, boom, and I just ran as fast as I could to the nearest floor so I could hide, and I called my mom."

Tyler said he ran behind some trees, heard more shots, jumped a fence and ran to a car wash. He said he saw firefighters treat a girl who had a bandage around her knee and may have been shot.

One student told Houston television station KTRK in a telephone interview that a gunman came into her first-period art class and started shooting. The student said she saw one girl with blood on her leg as the class evacuated the room.

"We thought it was a fire drill at first but really, the teacher said, 'Start running,'" the student told the television station.

The student said she didn't get a good look at the shooter because she was running away. She said students escaped through a door at the back of the classroom.

Authorities have not yet confirmed that report.

Students from the high school were being transported to another location to reunite with their parents.

A parent told CBS affiliate KHOU-TV that some students were evacuated to an auto shop near the campus.

Aerial footage from the scene showed students standing in a grassy field and three life-flight helicopters landing at the school in Santa Fe, a city of about 13,000 residents roughly 30 miles southeast of Houston.

In Washington, President Trump initially reacted to the shooting on Twitter.

"School shooting in Texas. Early reports not looking good. God bless all!" Mr. Trump said.


Later, while speaking at an event on prison reform, the president said it was a "very sad day."

"This has been going on too long in our country," Mr. Trump said. "Too many years, too many decades now. We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack. To the students, families, teachers and personnel at Santa Fe High, we're with you in this tragic hour, and we will be with you forever."

According to a law enforcement official, the FBI was responding to offer assistance, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said it was responding.
 

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Melensdad

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CNN is reporting that a second person IS BEING HELD IN CUSTODY
 

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Melensdad

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CBS News now reporting the kid had a shotgun & a .38 Special revolver.

The weapons were owned by the father of the shooter.

Unknown if the father knew the kid had access to the guns.
 

pirate_girl

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Yes, and then a Trump supporter shows up wearing his MAGA red hat, pistol in holster and the American flag.
He said he was there showing support and nothing more. Now some folks are outraged.
 

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Melensdad

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Social Media is KILLING those kids.

And glorification by the News Media.

But I do think that about 80% of this stuff is fueled by a desire to become famous on social media.

People feel they have little/no self worth and that their lives are empty compared to the lives of the people who post on Facebook and Twitter. They have receded into their little bubble and away from actual interactions with real people. So they reach out for publicity in sick ways.
 

luvs

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they give too much attention to criminals, not those bygone innocents- it's not an lmn movie; it's ppl's kiddos; actual ppl--
 
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