On Friday, May 18, a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, reportedly killing multiple people; Santa Fe law enforcement is reporting 10 dead and 13 wounded. They are also reporting that in addition to the shooting, various explosive devices have been found on campus, and the suspect has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, according to The New York Times, CNN, NBC News, and CBS News.
Santa Fe, Texas, high school shooting: multiple students killed
During a press conference following the incident, it was revealed that a shotgun and pistol were used — neither owned or legally possessed by the shooter. President Trump has also been notified of the situation and gave a brief statement earlier this afternoon.
Santa Fe High School is located roughly 30 miles outside of Houston, and the shooting comes after months of activism in the United States over guns and gun violence led by the survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people in February.
Here’s everything we know about this developing situation.
I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery.
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesA year ago today, on February 14, 2018, a gunman walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 people, and wounded 17 others. The shooting inspired a wave of activism, leading to the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, and new activism for gun control around the 2018 midterm elections.
But since the Parkland shooting, Congress has taken no significant steps to address gun violence. And since Parkland, there have been nearly 350 mass shootings — nearly one every day — based on the Gun Violence Archive’s definition, which counts every event in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed at the same general time and location.
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When the rest of the world looks at America’s gun problem, it’s often with bafflement.
Sunday with Lubach, which is sort of like the Dutch version of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, looked at guns — specifically, the US’s love of firearms. And it’s very telling.
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Products at a Reno, Nevada, school safety conference in July included a bullet-shield backpack from Eastern Beacon Industries. Maggie Starbard for VoxRENO, Nevada — Laser Shot. Door Shield. PepperBall. Vendors hawked their safety products to school cops at a casino resort in Nevada this month during the National School Safety Conference. The exhibit hall was packed, with dozens of businesses selling high-tech answers — and some low-tech options — to the question on many people’s minds: How do we prepare for a mass shooting at our school?
One seller insisted that the answer is a bullet-resistant blanket nailed to classroom doors. Another vendor said schools should arm teachers with flashlights that shoot pellets of pepper spray. A chatty ex-cop said his bullet-resistant backpacks will shield children from the bullets of an AR-15.
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Marilyn Lewis, program coordinator for the Alabama State Department of Education, prepares to try her hand in a training simulator at the NASRO National School Safety Conference in Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Maggie Starbard for VoxRENO, Nevada — Marilyn Lewis had never held a gun. But on one dry desert afternoon in June, the Alabama education official aimed a 9 mm pistol at an armed teenager in a high school classroom during a shooting rampage. Students screamed. Lewis pulled the trigger. After the third round, the gunman fell to the ground.
Everyone applauded. “He’s wounded in the chest, he’s down,” said one of the Laser Shot sales reps as he looked at the results on a computer tablet.
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The uncle of a Pakistani exchange student killed in the Santa Fe High School shooting has a message for America in a video from BBC: “Stop this bullshit. Make your schools safe — not for the sake of my kid or my niece, for the sake of your own kid. What are you doing with your society? We sent her to be educated, not to come back like this.”
Sabika Sheikh, 17, was among the eight students and two teachers killed in the Texas school shooting. She was part of a program that’s meant to help foster understanding between the US and Muslim countries.
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Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting: what we know
Emergency personnel respond to Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, after reports of a school shooting Friday morning. KTRK-TV ABC13 via APOn Friday morning, a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Ten people are dead, and 13 others have been wounded.
One suspect is in custody, identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. He has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a police officer.
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Emma Gonzalez Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesA least 10 people were killed and another 10 injured in a shooting on the campus of Santa Fe High School in Texas. It was the deadliest school shooting since the February 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when 17 people were murdered.
The tragedy in Santa Fe is still raw, and the police are still piecing together what happened in the hallways of this high school Friday morning. The 17-year-old shooter carried a shotgun and a revolver, but explosive devices were found at the school and the areas surrounding it.
Read Article >A Santa Fe High School student says she expected to be shot at one day
The Friday morning school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas happened three months and four days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. Since Parkland, there has been a groundswell of activism at high schools, with students walking out to demand action on gun control.
Some students from Santa Fe High School even participated in this movement.
Read Article >Read President Trump’s statement on Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting
President Trump. Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty ImagesFriday morning, an as-yet-unidentified gunman opened fire on students and staff in Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. At least eight people are known to have been killed, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Shortly after news of the Santa Fe shooting broke, President Trump gave a public statement on the tragedy. Here is a full transcript of his statement; a video of the comments, courtesy of C-SPAN, is appended below:
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