Police: Maryland school shooter used his father’s handgun
GREAT MILLS, Md. — A teenager used his father’s legally-owned handgun in an attack inside his high school in Maryland, police said Wednesday.
Austin Rollins, 17, was killed Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School when a school resource officer fired off a shot at the attacker. It was not yet clear whether Rollins took his own life with his father’s semi-automatic Glock handgun or was killed by the officer’s bullet.
Investigators with the St. Mary’s County sheriff’s office said Rollins shot a 16-year-old girl in a hallway within minutes of entering the high school. Rollins and the girl had recently ended a relationship.
“All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence,” police said in a statement.