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U.S. NEWSThursday 22 March 2018

Police: Maryland school shooter used his father's handgun

This undated photo provided by the Willey family shows Jaelynn Willey. A teenager armed with 16-year-old girl in a hallway responded inside of 60 sec-
a handgun shot and critically wounded Willey inside a Maryland school on Tuesday, March 20, within minutes of entering onds and fired off a shot at
2018, and the shooter was killed when a school resource officer confronted him moments after the the high school. Rollins and the attacker.
gunfire erupted. A third student was in good condition after he was shot. the girl had recently ended "He did a very, very good
a relationship. job," said Sharon Eglinton,
(Courtesy of the Willey family via AP) "All indications suggest the manager of a cafe in near-
shooting was not a random by Leonardtown.
By MATTHEW BARAKAT said Wednesday. Rollins took his own life with act of violence," police While investigators are still
BRIAN WITTE Austin Rollins, 17, was killed his father's semi-automat- said in a statement. determining whether Rol-
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A Tuesday morning at Great ic Glock handgun or was A 14-year-old boy who was lins took his own life or was
teenager used his father's Mills High School when a killed by the officer's bullet. shot in the thigh was re- killed by the officer's bullet,
legally-owned handgun school resource officer fired Investigators with the St. leased Wednesday from a St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim
in an attack inside his high off a shot at the attacker. It Mary's County sheriff's of- hospital, while the girl, Jae- Cameron credited Deputy
school in Maryland, police was not yet clear whether fice said Rollins shot a lynn Willey, was still fight- First Class Blaine Gaskill with
ing for her life at a the Uni- preventing any more loss of
versity of Maryland Prince life. Cameron said Gaskill, a
George's Hospital Center. six-year veteran with SWAT
The area where the shoot- team training, responded
ing took place is in St. Mary's within a minute and fired
County, with a popula- his weapon simultaneously
tion of about 110,000. The with a final shot fired by
coastal swath of southern Rollins. The officer was un-
Maryland is located about harmed.
65 miles (105 kilometers) Gaskill was praised a cou-
from Washington, D.C., ple of years ago for his han-
and many families have dling of a confrontation
military ties. with an armed suspect.
Attempts to reach the A Maryland man was
shooter's family were un- charged in 2016 after he
successful. was accused of confront-
A day after the eruption ing Gaskill with a gun at an
of gun violence in one of apartment in an incident
the sleepy community's captured on body camera
schools, the few residents video. Gaskill can be heard
who ventured out amid in the video giving several
a snowstorm blanketing commands to drop the
the East Coast praised the gun before the man even-
school resource officer who tually complies.q

Family questions police killing of man in grandparents' yard

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) show his hands. leased the man's name but . "C'mon now, they didn't for his grandparents at their
— A black man who Sacra- Sacramento police say he a woman who said she was have to do that." home in south Sacramento,
mento police say was seen advanced toward the of- his fiancee identified him as The department could not his cousin, Sonia Lewis, told
breaking into at least three ficers holding an object Stephon Alonzo Clark, 22, say how many times Clark Capitol Public Radio .
vehicles and later into a extended in front of him. the father of her two sons, was hit, and the coroner's Black Lives Matter Sacra-
neighbor's home was killed The officers thought he was ages 1 and 3. office was not releasing in- mento called it a police
by officers who fired 20 pointing a handgun and "We're mourning right now formation until his relatives murder and demanded
shots, igniting questions by opened fire, the depart- and so we need our time to were notified. The depart- answers.
relatives, activists and oth- ment said. mourn," Salena Manni, said ment said the two officers City Councilman Larry Carr
ers after it turned out he was No gun was found and only Wednesday as the family have been with Sacramen- decried the loss of life and
holding only a cellphone. the cellphone was found gathered in his grandpar- to police for two and four said police must provide
The shooting Sunday night near his body when addi- ents' home. years, but each has four timely information. The
happened in the backyard tional officers arrived and "He was at the wrong place years' previous experience department is required to
of the man's grandparents' approached him about at the wrong time in his own with other law enforcement release video from the he-
home, where he was stay- five minutes after the shoot- backyard?" Clark's grand- agencies. Both are on paid licopter and the officers'
ing, after police said he ing, the department said. mother, Sequita Thompson, administrative leave. body cameras within 30
refused orders to stop and Authorities have not re- told The Sacramento Bee Clark routinely helped care days.q