TEHRAN, May 19 - Ten people, mostly students, were killed when a teenage classmate armed with a shotgun and a revolver opened fire in a Texas high school Friday, the latest deadly school shooting to hit the United States.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The gunman, arrested on murder charges, was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old junior at Santa Fe High School. He is being held on capital murder charges, meaning he could face the death penalty.
Governor Greg Abbott said 10 people died and another 10 were wounded in "one of the most heinous attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools."
He said the gunman apparently carried out the attack with a shotgun and a .38 revolver that were legally owned by his father.
Abbott focused on the need to better address mental health concerns and to arm schools, rather than call for limits on the proliferation of weapons.
Earlier this year, 17 people were killed at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, -- a massacre that prompted survivors to launch a grassroots campaign against gun violence that led to the largest gun reform rallies in nearly two decades.
Friday's mass shooting was the second one in Texas in six months.
Source: AFP
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