Staff Writers
A terrifying school shooting happened on May 18, at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Ten people were shot and killed and 13 others were wounded. Of the ten people killed, eight were students and two were teachers. The shooter was taken into custody right after it happened and later was identified by police as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school.
The shooting happened around 7:40 a.m., just as school started. A wounded victim told reporters that when Pagourtzis walked in a classroom, he chose his victims, pointing a gun at a person and announcing: “I’m going to kill you.”
Students tried to barricade themselves in class so that Pagourtzis couldn’t get in, but he just shot through the doors with a shotgun and then fired at students with his revolver. The whole shooting lasted 25 minutes.
Pagourtzis did not say much during a court video appearance. The shooter used a .38 revolver and a shotgun, both very dangerous weapons, which were both legally owned by his father. Students have stated that in Pagourtzis’s previous school time, he was extremely quiet and didn't talk to anyone. He also wore a heavy trench coat. Santa Fe is the twenty-second school shooting of 2018 in the United States.
New Hope-Solebury students should care about this because you never know when something horrible like this can happen to you. You have to be prepared for the worst. With the ALICE training happening with the staff, students should know what to do if a situation like this occurs.
Students at New Hope need to realize that a shooting could happen at any school around the world, and everybody needs to be prepared for the worse by working with the staff and being aware of what is happening in their surroundings at all times.
