High school on lockdown after shooting in Maryland.

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High school on lockdown after shooting in Maryland.

'Two students and a gunman are injured after a shooting in a high school in Maryland.
Two people and a gunman were injured and a high school was placed into lockdown during a shooting in Maryland.



Great Mills High School confirmed an attack in their school just 8am (12pm GMT) on Tuesday, and said a gunman
entered the school and shot two people before being "engaged by the school resource officer".
St Mary's County Sheriff's spokesman Julie Yingling said there were no fatalities, and confirmed three people had
been shot, one of those confirmed as the gunman.

She did not know how the gunman had been injured, but all three have been taken to hospital.
AFP reported all three were in a "critical condition".
The school was evacuated, with pupils taken to a nearby school where a reunification centre has been set up.

A St Mary's County Public School spokesman said: "The building is orderly and the Sheriff's Office is conducting
an investigation."

Mollie Davis, a student at the school, tweeted: "Hi Twitter. I am in Great Mills HS. My school is on a very real lockdown
threat and there's already someone possibly dead. Please pray for us.
"You never think it'll be your school and then it is. Great Mills is a wonderful school and somewhere I am proud to go.
Why us?" She later added: "I am safe.

The police came to my classroom and saw us to the bathroom and back and said we would be leaving soon."
St Mary's County sheriff's office told parents not to go to the school, but to report to nearby Leonardtown High School.

Jonathan Freese, a student at the school, spoke to CNN from inside his Maths classroom.
He said the incident happened around 8am (12pm GMT), almost as soon as school had started.
He said: "I've heard one person got hurt trying to get the gun.
"I'm a little shaken up. I didn't think it would really happen. It happened in the art hallway.
"I'm surprised I didn't (hear gunshots).

"Police are checking on students and seeing if they are safe and we are going to be escorted out.
We are told to leave our stuff.
"The police have responded really quickly."

He said they had completed training for the event of a gunman in school.
He said: "I know I'm safe. Everyone responded, I heard sirens within five minutes."...'

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