05-22-2018, 11:18 AM
Yesterday, LE confirmed that there were two resource officers at Santa Fe High School.
It hasn't been directly stated that the wounded resource officer, Barnes, was armed. But, the other resource officer (not yet publicly identified) who approached the shooter with Barnes fired at least one shot at the shooter.
LE says that after Barnes was shot the other resource officer contained the shooter to one room so the hundreds of responding officers who arrived on the scene could evacuate the students on other parts of the campus.
The Galveston sheriff said the officers tried to negotiate with the shooter verbally for much of the 25 minutes they engaged with him and the officers kept their fire to a minimum while the teen kept shooting at them. The shooter was in a classroom and the officers were in the hallway.
The sheriff expanded upon (or changed?) the description of the explosive devices the shooter planted. He said the devices found were so-called cricket bombs, made by filling spent carbon dioxide cartridges with gunpowder and adding a fuse.
Unsurprisingly, it was also confirmed that the Santa Fe HS shooter studied other mass murderers. The pipe bombs, the trench coat, and the detailed journals are straight out of the Columbine playbook.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/som...re-n876171
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...on/560753/
It hasn't been directly stated that the wounded resource officer, Barnes, was armed. But, the other resource officer (not yet publicly identified) who approached the shooter with Barnes fired at least one shot at the shooter.
LE says that after Barnes was shot the other resource officer contained the shooter to one room so the hundreds of responding officers who arrived on the scene could evacuate the students on other parts of the campus.
The Galveston sheriff said the officers tried to negotiate with the shooter verbally for much of the 25 minutes they engaged with him and the officers kept their fire to a minimum while the teen kept shooting at them. The shooter was in a classroom and the officers were in the hallway.
The sheriff expanded upon (or changed?) the description of the explosive devices the shooter planted. He said the devices found were so-called cricket bombs, made by filling spent carbon dioxide cartridges with gunpowder and adding a fuse.
Unsurprisingly, it was also confirmed that the Santa Fe HS shooter studied other mass murderers. The pipe bombs, the trench coat, and the detailed journals are straight out of the Columbine playbook.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/som...re-n876171
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...on/560753/