{"id":800,"date":"2018-03-23T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2018-03-25T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:33:20","slug":"girl-shot-at-maryland-school-dies-after-being-taken-off-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Girl Shot at Maryland School Dies After Being Taken Off Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jaelynn Willey, shot in the head by another student at Great Mills High School on Tuesday, died on Thursday after she was removed from life support.<\/span>\u00a0Credit<\/span>Willey family, via Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A 16-year-old girl critically injured in a\u00a0shooting at a Maryland high school<\/a>this week died on Thursday night after she was taken off life support.<\/p>\n

The girl, Jaelynn Willey, was \u201csurrounded by her family\u201d when she died shortly before midnight, the St. Mary\u2019s County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. She had been at the University of Maryland Prince George\u2019s Hospital Center since Tuesday, when another student shot her in the head in a hallway at their school in Great Mills, Md.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, her parents said that she was brain dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter was hurt by a boy who shot her in the head and took everything from our lives,\u201d her mother, Melissa Willey, said at a news conference at the hospital as she clutched her youngest child in her arms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the police said, Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, opened fire inside Great Mills High School with a handgun, striking Jaelynn and a 14-year-old boy. Jaelynn was shot in the head and collapsed in the hallway outside an art classroom, students said. The boy, Desmond Barnes, was shot in the thigh and was hospitalized. He has since been released.<\/p>\n

The authorities were still trying to determine whether Jaelynn and her killer had had a relationship. The sheriff\u00a0had said Wednesday that they did<\/a>, but on Friday the office seemed to walk back that assertion, saying merely \u201cthey were acquainted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The shooting, which lasted about a minute, ended in a confrontation between the gunman and an armed school resource officer stationed at Great Mills High. The officer, Deputy Blaine Gaskill, responded almost immediately and fired his weapon at the gunman, who later died at a hospital. Deputy Gaskill was unharmed in the exchange.<\/p>\n

While it was not immediately clear if the officer struck Mr. Rollins, the deputy\u2019s quick response brought renewed attention to the national debate over gun control and how to prevent mass school shootings after the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month in Parkland, Fla. Some politicians, including President Trump, have advocated arming teachers and\u00a0placing additional police officers in schools<\/a>. Others have criticized the idea.<\/p>\n

Survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting have organized\u00a0the March for Our Lives<\/a>, a rally to end gun violence planned for Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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