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REUTERS: The teenage boy charged with murdering eight students and two teachers during a gun rampage at a Houston-area high school on Friday (May 18) studied previous mass shootings before carrying out his attack, sources told ABC News.The accused killer, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, "used aspects of those (attacks) in his own shooting," a source told the broadcaster, without going into further details.Classmates at the school in Santa Fe, Texas described Pagourtzis as a quiet loner who played on the football team. The attacker wore a black trench coat to school even in the Texas heat on Friday and opened fire with a .38 caliber pistol and Remington shotgun.Multiple media accounts say the gunman taunted some of his victims, asking some hiding in a closet if they wanted to answer their ringing cell phones. "You want to get that?" the attacker said, according to The Wall Street Journal.He spared others saying he wanted his story told. Police also found homemade pipe bombs that did not … [Read more...] about Teen Texas gunman suspect studied previous mass shootings: Report

By STEPHANIE SAUL The New York Times Wed., Feb. 21, 2018 Even before a gunman opened fire at a Florida school last week, killing 17, a national effort had been underway to arm and train teachers and administrators to defend against mass shootings. That effort has gained momentum in recent days. Legislators have moved to permit concealed weapons in schools. Sheriff’s offices have offered to train school staff members in armed response. But one assistant high school principal who survived a school shooting — after loading his Colt .45 pistol, then chasing and detaining the suspect at gunpoint — says the idea is misguided. Read more: After a gunman killed 17 people, Florida students are heading to the state capital to press for gun law changes Article Continued Below Trump proposes arming teachers and staffing schools with military veterans in meeting with massacre survivors Florida shooting survivors confront state lawmakers in … [Read more...] about Principal who detained school shooter in ’90s is against arming teachers

By JULIE TURKEWITZ The New York Times Tues., Feb. 20, 2018 TAMARAC, FLA.—The shooting was all over, but the emotional reckoning had just begun, and so on Saturday the teachers of Broward County in Florida packed their union hall to discuss what it meant to have become the nation’s human shields. “Last night I told my wife I would take a bullet for the kids,” said Robert Parish, a teacher at an elementary school just miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, where a former student killed 17 people, including at least three faculty members who found themselves in the line of fire. Since the attack on Wednesday, Parish said, “I think about it all the time.” Across the country, teachers are grappling with how their roles have expanded, from educator and counsellor to bodyguard and protector. They wonder if their classrooms are properly equipped, if they would recognize the signs of a dangerous student and, most of all, if they are … [Read more...] about ‘Last night I told my wife I would take a bullet for the kids’