Students lay flowers at Santa Fe memorial as witnesses recall massacre

The governor says the suspect, identified by a law enforcement official to be 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, said he originally meant to commit suicide but gave himself up and told authorities that he didn’t have the courage to take his own life.

The father, who owns a Houston-based shipping fix company, said his family was distraught over the mass shooting.

The school district’s police officers got to the area of the school just four minutes after the shooting started, and officials exchanged gunfire with the suspect for almost half an hour.

While one community begins the healing process, their neighbors, and the country, join them in actions to keep what happened Friday from ever happening again.

Eight of the 10 people police say he fatally shot were students, and the other two were substitute teachers.

The baccalaureate service was moved from Santa Fe High School’s auditorium because of the shooting.

Abbott will meet with two dozen people, including supporters and opponents of arming teachers, following the fourth-deadliest US school shooting this year at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday. Her body was to be returned to Karachi. Trochesset said he doesn’t think any additional students were shot after officers confronted the shooter but can’t make a final determination until autopsies are completed. But Abbott’s call to do “more than just pray” for the victims comes in a state that has fully embraced its gun culture and resisted previous attempts to scale it back.

“I’m nearly to the point where you nearly become speechless because these incidents are happening way too much”, Turner added.

“Administration looked into these claims and confirmed that these reports are untrue”, it said in a statement on Facebook. Please do something. No children should be taken away from parents. It was a silent but powerful protest outside the front doors of Skinner North Classical School honoring the 10 people killed in the shooting at Santa Fe High School.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has an opportunity to crack apart the biggest obstacle to finding the cures we need: A reluctance to even discuss possible solutions. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said she was helping to build ties between the USA and Pakistan.

Today there are nearly as many guns as people in the U.S. We now are on our 22nd school shooting this year, and an average of 90 people die at the end of a gun each day.

Abbott has focused on mental health issues and arming school personnel.

“In our schools we will speak and occupy and yell and lie down and sit and stand to make sure that common-sense gun laws are enacted”, a demonstrator spoke out.

“There’s nothing wrong with reasonable, pragmatic (gun) restrictions”, Sylvester Turner said at a news conference. “One metal detector could have saved her, just one”.

Some students are no longer shocked when they hear of a shooting, considering it simply a tragic part of growing up. Three weeks after the bloodbath, Florida politicians defied the NRA and passed a gun control package after a lobbying campaign led by student survivors of the attack. The two people he tried to help also were killed.