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A Visalia high school teacher is in jail after forcibly cutting a student's hair in class. Video surfaced Wednesday showing 52-year-old Margaret Gieszinger chasing students with scissors between desks while belting out the "Star Spangled Banner" at University Preparatory High School.RELATED: Boy who had hair forcibly cut 'absolutely terrified', may sue Visalia teacher, says lawyer It was first period inside Gieszinger's chemistry class and a bizarre chain of events is about to take off. Students say the teacher came into class with a pair of scissors declaring it was hair cut day."We think she's going to try to be funny and be like 'Oh did you really think I was going to cut his hair?' But she did cut a hair off, and she started singing the Star Spangled Banner and she was singing it really loudly as she ceremoniously tossed a chunk of hair behind her," said a student who wanted to remain anonymous.The student says he was sitting in the back of the classroom and ran to the main office for help."I hope I never have to see her at the school again, because I know for a fact I can never see her as a respectable authority figure in my life."The video continues to show Gieszinger grabbing at another girl's hair before everyone makes a run for it out of the classroom. Students say they don't know what triggered her behavior but say she had a similar breakdown earlier this week."I know that on Monday she had another freak out because a test was missing or something. She accused the students of taking the test."College of the Sequoias Police have since arrested Gieszinger on suspicion of corporal injury to a child. Her bail is set at $100,000.The Tulare County Office of Education has released a statement regarding the incident: ||||| VISALIA, California - A high school teacher was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of felony child endangerment, police say.

 University Prepatory High School science teacher, Margaret Gieszinger, 52, of Exeter, was arrested at her home around noon, says the College of the Sequoias District Police Chief Kevin Mizner.

 The high school is located on the community college's campus.

 He says, Gieszinger allegedly told students she was giving "free haircuts," and a student thought she was joking, so he sat in her chair and she started cutting.

 He told her to stop, Mizner says, but she wouldn't and the student ran out of the classroom.

 Mizner says she followed the student out with scissors, other students tried to intervene, and eventually other staff got her to stop.

 She stopped teaching for the day and went home, Mizner says.

 Police interviewed students and watched cell phone footage of the incident and had enough cause to arrest Gieszinger at her home.

 According to jail records, Gieszinger is booked into the Tulare County Adult Pre-Trial Facility and her bail is set at $100,000. ||||| Margaret Gieszinger (Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Department)

 A Visalia teacher has been arrested after an Instagram video showed her appearing to forcibly chop off at least one student's hair while belting out the National Anthem in her classroom.

 College of the Sequoias police responded Wednesday to a University Preparatory High School classroom after reports of child endangerment involving a teacher and a "pair of scissors," said Police Chief Kevin Mizner.

 Science teacher Margaret Gieszinger, 52, of Exeter, was later arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment. Her bail was set at $100,000.

 The arrest followed three videos posted to social media on Wednesday showing a student sitting in a chair at the front of the classroom as the teacher cuts off portions of the student's hair. She then tosses the chunks of hair behind her.

 The Times-Delta has seen the videos but cannot publish them online at this time due to copyright concerns.

 As the student attempts to get up and walk back to his desk, the teacher says, "You're not done," and motions him to sit back down.

 She then chops his hair again. He again stands up and moves away from her.

 Shortly after, in the video, the teacher calls out other students and then walks over to a female student. The teacher appears to grab a piece of the student's hair and attempts to snip it.

 Other students then begin to scream and run out of the classroom.

 The teacher continues to loudly sing as students flee.

 Students at University Prep High School walk to class on Thursday, December 6, 2018. On Wednesday, a science teacher was arrested after she was recorded cutting a student's hair. (Photo: Calley Cederlof)

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 "All students are safe," Principal Eric Thiessen said, Wednesday afternoon. He directed questions to the district.

 Lilli Gates, one of Gieszinger's students, said the incident is out of character for the teacher.

 "When everything was going on I was terrified, and I so badly wanted to blame her. I was scared she was going to come back," Gates said. "What she did to my classmates and I is inexcusable. I am not trying to make excuses for her, I simply ask everyone to reconsider how they view her. She is a loving and kind lady. She is usually all smiles and laughs. This is not the Miss G. we know and love."

 Sara Rocha is a parent of a UPHS junior. Rocha's daughter is friends with a girl in Gieszinger's class.

 Trouble started on Monday, Rocha said. A test went missing earlier in the week and Gieszinger's blamed students, she said.

 During Monday's incident, Rocha said Gieszinger made her daughter's friend cry. Students reached out to administrators on Monday, according to Rocha.

 "(Students) asked for help," she said, "but were told they had to go back to class."

 A teacher at Hurley Elementary School, Rocha said she is disappointed in the administration's lack of intervention.

 "We have to take it seriously when (students) come to us," she said. "We absolutely need to listen to kids. This breaks my heart."

 Rocha said UPHS is a "great school" and teachers make an effort to connect with students. But, she feels more could have been done to prevent Wednesday's incident.

 "I've always felt safe at UPHS," she said. "But the fact kids asked for help and didn't get it makes me really sad."

 Students at University Prep High School walk class on Thursday morning. On Wednesday, a science teacher was arrested after she was recorded cutting a student's hair. (Photo: Calley Cederlof)

 Police say they've completed their initial investigation into the incident and the case will soon be submitted to the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office for review.

 According to Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Gieszinger's credential was suspended in 2007 and 2016. It's unclear why her credentials were suspended. The 2016 suspension lasted 14 days. The 2007 suspension lasted seven.

 The 2016 credential suspension was cited as an Education Code 44421 suspension.

 Education Code 44421 suspension reads:

 "The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall privately admonish, publicly reprove, revoke or suspend for immoral or unprofessional conduct, or for persistent defiance of, and refusal to obey, the laws regulating the duties of persons serving in the public school system, or for any cause that would have warranted the denial of an application for a credential or the renewal thereof, or for evident unfitness for service."

 Commission on Teach Credentialing did not respond to calls before this story went to press.

 According to Transparent California, a pay and pension online database, Gieszinger was previously employed by Lindsay Unified School District and Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District.

 Both school districts did not return calls for comment.

 Tulare County Office of Education, which oversees the high school, is also investigating the incident, said Rob Herman, public information officer.

 After refusing to comment on the incident Wednesday, TCOE officials released a statement Thursday morning.

 "The staff at University Preparatory High School and the administration at the Tulare County Office of Education are deeply concerned for the students who were subjected to the disturbing behavior in Margaret Gieszinger’s class yesterday morning," said Jim Vidak, superintendent of Tulare County schools. "To support all students on the UPHS campus today, we have sent top counselors from our mental health services program. They will continue to be available to the students as long as necessary."

 Vidak added that Gieszinger will not return to her UPHS classroom and that a "highly-qualified substitute teacher" will take over for the rest of the semester.

 UPHS administration will work closely with the substitute teacher until a replacement teacher is hired, Vidak said.

 About 225 students are enrolled in the Tulare County Office of Education high school.

 University Prep opened on the COS campus in 2009.

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– A California teacher is behind bars with bail set at $100,000 after she allegedly followed through on what students thought was a teasing offer of "free haircuts." Police were called to Visalia's University Preparatory High School on Wednesday in response to an Instagram video that appeared to show science teacher Margaret Gieszinger using scissors to chop off a student's hair during a first-period chemistry class. Hair flew amid the teacher's loud rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," per the Visalia Times-Delta, which adds Gieszinger stopped the male student as he tried to get away. "You're not done," she allegedly said, and continued cutting. Gieszinger then was said to have grabbed the hair of a female student before kids screamed and ran for the classroom door. Two days earlier, Gieszinger had claimed students were responsible for a test that had gone missing, a parent tells the Times-Delta. "They asked for help from administrators on Monday but were told they had to go back to class," one parent says. One student describes the behavior as out of character for the 52-year-old teacher, later arrested at her home on suspicion of felony child endangerment, per YourCentralValley.com. "Loving and kind," she's "usually all smiles and laughs. This is not the Miss G. we know and love," the student tells the Times-Delta. But: "I hope I never have to see her at the school again," another student tells KFSN. "I can never see her as a respectable authority figure in my life." Gieszinger was handed two-week suspensions for unknown reasons in 2007 and 2016. (A Florida teacher was accused of drowning animals in class.)


– Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old suspect in the shooting at Texas' Santa Fe High School on Friday that took the lives of 10 and wounded several others, has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant, CNN reports. Pagourtzis, who once played football on the school's JV team and was described by a classmate as "kind of a quiet kid," has asked for a court-appointed attorney and hasn't yet entered a plea. He's not up for bond. In a probable cause affidavit, an investigator who talked to Pagourtzis says the teen noted he had "spared" people he liked during the rampage "because he wanted his story told," per CNN. More on the shooting and the aftermath: CNN and the AP have the latest on two of the victims so far: Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh, and Cynthia Tisdale, a substitute teacher with a "lust for life." "[I] never met a woman who loved her family so much," Tisdale's niece tells the AP. A heartbreaking clip that's gone viral, via the New York Times, shows Santa Fe student Paige Curry being asked if the shooting had felt surreal while it was happening. "Was there a part of you that was like, 'This isn't real, this … would not happen in my school?" a reporter asked. An emotional Paige replied, "No, there wasn't. … It's been happening everywhere. … I've always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too."

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 SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas (all times local):

 10:05 p.m.

 A sophomore at Santa Fe High School says he was in his art class when he suddenly heard three louds booms.

 Zachary Muehe tells The New York Times he then "saw the kid who's in my football class ... and I saw him with a shotgun."

 Muehe says that classmate, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was wearing a trench coat and a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Born to Kill." The sophomore says Pagourtzis started shooting as soon as he entered the classroom.

 Muehe says "it was crazy watching him shoot and then pump." He was able to flee to another classroom through a shared ceramics closet.

 Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder.

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 9:20 p.m.

 A student at a Houston-area high school where 10 people were killed says it was a "perfectly normal day" before shots rang out in her art classroom.

 Breanna Quintanilla, a 17-year-old junior at Santa Fe High School, says that when Dimitrios Pagourtzis walked into the room, he pointed at one person and said, "I'm going to kill you." She did not identify the student who was shot.

 Quintanilla also says the suspect fired in her direction as she tried to run out of the room. She says the bullet ricocheted and hit her right leg. She was still wearing a hospital bracelet on her wrist as she spoke after a Friday night vigil.

 Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the school shooting. He was denied bond at a hearing earlier Friday.

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 8:20 p.m.

 A leader at a program for foreign exchange students and the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., say a Pakistani girl is among those killed in the Texas high school shooting.

 Megan Lysaght, manager of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study Abroad program, sent a letter to other students in the program confirming that Sabika Sheikh was killed in the shooting at Santa Fe High School.

 The letter says the program is devastated by Sabika's loss and would be holding a moment of silence for her.

 Lysaght declined further comment when contacted by The Associated Press and referred calls to a State Department spokesman.

 The Pakistan Embassy in Washington identified Sabika as a victim of the shooting on Twitter and wrote that "our thoughts and prayers are with Sabika's family and friends."

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 8:10 p.m.

 The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says he expects the Justice Department to pursue additional charges against the suspected gunman at a Texas high school.

 Texas Rep. Michael McCaul told The Associated Press on Friday that federal prosecutors are looking into possible weapons of mass destruction charges against 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis.

 The Santa Fe High School student was in custody on murder charges and made his initial court appearance Friday evening by video link from the Galveston County Jail. He's accused of killing 10 people, most of them fellow students. Authorities say he also had explosive devices that were found in the school and nearby.

 McCaul is a former federal prosecutor. He thinks the Justice Department "wants to ramp this up as much as they can to send a message of deterrence."

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 7:20 p.m.

 Family members say a substitute teacher whose passion was her children and grandchildren is among the victims of the shooting at a Texas high school.

 Leia Olinde says authorities confirmed to her family that her aunt, Cynthia Tisdale, was killed in Friday morning's shooting at Santa Fe High School.

 She says Tisdale, who was in her 60s, was like a mother to her and helped her shop for wedding dresses last year.

 Olinde says Tisdale was married to her husband for close to 40 years and had three children and eight grandchildren. She says she "never met a woman who loved her family so much."

 Olinde's fiance, Eric Sanders, says "words don't explain her lust for life and the joy she got from helping people."

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 6:55 p.m.

 Officials have canceled classes at schools in the Santa Fe Independent School District through at least Tuesday in the wake of a shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 dead, most of them students.

 In a statement posted on the district website, officials indicated that no plan has been made for resuming classes.

 Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis is charged with capital murder in the shooting rampage. A judge denied him bond at a court hearing Friday evening.

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 6:30 p.m.

 A judge has denied bond for the 17-year-old accused of killing 10 people and wounding 10 others at a Texas high school.

 Dimitrios Pagourtzis made his initial court appearance Friday evening via closed circuit video from the Galveston County Jail. The judge also took Pagourtzis' application for a court-appointed attorney.

 Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the Friday morning shooting at Santa Fe High School. He did not enter a plea at the hearing.

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 6:25 p.m.

 Students at a Houston-area high school where a shooting left 10 people dead and 10 wounded are divided on the issue on gun control.

 Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been identified as the suspect in Friday's shooting at Santa Fe High School.

 Branden Auzston, also 17, is a junior at the school. He says he doesn't like the idea of arming teachers or allowing open carry on school campuses.

 Auzston says "that might help, but at the same time it would just leave room for more deaths." He thinks security at his school could be improved if more police officers are stationed there "but in a smart manner."

 However, 17-year-old senior Daisy Sullivan, Auzston's girlfriend, says she doesn't think more gun control measures are needed.

 She says "it's not, like, the gun's fault" whenever a school shooting happens. Sullivan adds, "No, it's the kid who had the idea. Something is wrong with his head. He had the weird idea to shoot up a school."

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 5:15 p.m.

 President Donald Trump has "activated" his gun safety commission and is expected to meet with members next week in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Texas.

 White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the commission the president convened after the Parkland, Florida, shooting in February "has been activated today to start that conversation up again." She says she believes it will be meeting again in "first part of next week."

 She declined to say whether Trump will revisit some gun control measures after another school shooting, but adds, "Certainly conversation's ongoing about the best ways to protect kids across the country."

 Authorities say Friday's shooting at Santa Fe High School left 10 dead and 10 wounded.

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 4:45 p.m.

 Netflix has canceled the premiere of its second season of the teen drama "13 Reasons Why" because of a school shooting near Houston.

 The streaming service announced the cancellation hours before the scheduled premiere and red carpet event, citing the Friday morning shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 people dead.

 Despite the cancelled premiere, the entire Season 2 is available on Netflix.

 The first season of "13 Reasons Why" drew criticism for its graphic depiction of a teenager's suicide. The second season focuses on the aftermath of the girl's death, and includes a storyline about a thwarted school shooting.

 The show's launch party was expected to feature appearances by show stars Katherine Langford, Dylan Minnette, Kate Walsh and others, and producer Selena Gomez.

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 4:40 p.m.

 U.S. Senator John Cornyn says the 17-year-old student accused in a fatal shooting at a Texas high school used a semi-automatic pistol and a sawed-off shotgun to kill 10 people.

 The Republican from Texas says investigators are still determining whether the shotgun's shortened barrel is legal.

 Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the Friday shooting that also wounded 10 people at Santa Fe High School near Houston.

 Cornyn says the suspect had a variety of homemade explosives in his car and at the school, including pipe bombs and "pressure-cooker-like bombs" similar to those used in the Boston Marathon attack.

 Cornyn says the suspect "planned on doing this for some time, he advertised his intentions but somehow slipped through the cracks."

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 4:15 p.m.

 Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump "has been taking action to make our schools and our communities safe," hours after a mass shooting at a high school in Texas.

 Pence on Friday called it a "heartbreaking day" after at least 10 people were killed at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas.

 Speaking at political event in his home state of Indiana, Pence is highlighting the administration's efforts on school safety, including signing legislation authorizing $2 billion for state and local governments to use to protect schools and a bill to strengthen the nation's firearm background check system.

 Pence says the administration is still calling on states "to follow the example of Indiana and allow qualified school personnel to carry concealed weapons." A school police officer was among the 10 people who were shot and injured Friday in Santa Fe.

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 4:05 p.m.

 Texas' governor says the 17-year-old student believed to be behind a high school shooting that killed 10 people wrote in his journal of wanting to carry out such an attack.

 Republican Greg Abbott said Friday that the suspect "has information contained in journals on his computer, in his cellphone that ... said ... not only did he want to commit the shooting but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting."

 Abbott added that the suspect gave himself up to authorities, saying he "didn't have the courage" to take his own life.

 Dimitrios Pagourtzis (Puh-GORE-cheese) has been charged with capital murder in the Friday morning shooting that killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in Santa Fe, near Houston and Galveston.

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 3:45 p.m.

 A hospital spokesman says a school resource officer who was shot in the arm when he engaged a gunman during a shooting at a Houston-area school is undergoing surgery.

 David Marshall, the University of Texas Medical Branch's chief nursing officer, says Santa Fe school resource officer John Barnes is in stable condition Friday afternoon.

 Marshall says a bullet hit Barnes' arm, damaging the bone and a major blood vessel around his elbow. He says the blood vessel has been repaired, and that Barnes is expected to emerge from surgery within a few hours.

 Marshall says Barnes was the first person to engage a student armed with two guns who opened fire at Santa Fe High School Friday morning. The shooter killed at least 10 people and injured 10 more.

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 3:30 p.m.

 President Donald Trump has ordered that U.S. flags fly at half-staff as a mark of "solemn respect" for those affected by the school shooting in Texas.

 Flags are to be flown at half-staff until sunset on May 22. The order applies to the White House and all public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations and vessels, as well as at U.S. embassies, consular offices and other facilities abroad. The flag atop the White House was immediately lowered on Friday.

 Texas authorities say 10 people, mostly students, were killed Friday when a 17-year-old student carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school.

 Ten other people were wounded at the school in Santa Fe.

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 3:15 p.m.

 A sophomore baseball player was one of at least 10 people injured in a shooting at a Houston-area high school.

 Rome Shubert tells the Houston Chronicle that he was hit in the back of his head with what he says was a bullet, but that it "missed everything vital."

 Shubert posted on Twitter that he was "completely okay (sic) and stable."

 Authorities say 17-year-old student Dimitrios Pagourtzis fatally shot 10 people and wounded 10 others at Santa Fe High School on Friday. He is being held on a capital murder charge.

 Shubert says the gunman walked into the classroom and tossed something. He said there were "three loud pops" before the attacker fled into the hall.

 Shubert says he realized he'd been struck and injured as he was running out the back door.

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 2:55 p.m.

 Gov. Greg Abbott says there were few prior warnings about the suspected gunman who opened fire inside a Texas high school, unlike in other recent mass shootings.

 Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset says 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the Friday morning shooting that killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in the community of Santa Fe.

 Abbott said that "unlike Parkland, unlike Sutherland Springs, there were not those types of warning signs." He was referring to the Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida and one in November inside a church in a town near San Antonio.

 Abbott says "the red-flag warnings were either non-existent, or very imperceptible" in the case of the suspected Santa Fe shooter.

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 2:40 p.m.

 A sheriff says the 17-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of at least 10 people at his Houston-area high school is being held on a capital murder charge.

 Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset says in a statement that the student, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, is being held without bond in the Galveston County jail.

 At least 10 other people were wounded in the shooting Friday morning at the Santa Fe High School.

 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says investigators also found explosive devices, including a Molotov cocktail, in the school and nearby.

 Abbott says the suspect told authorities after his arrest that he had intended to kill himself too, but that he lacked the courage.

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 2:30 p.m.

 At least one student isn't at all surprised that a deadly shooting happened at her high school in Texas.

 Paige Curry, who is 17, says "it's been happening everywhere" and that she "always ... felt like that eventually it was going to happen here too."

 Gov. Greg Abbott says 10 people were killed and 10 more were injured Friday morning when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School.

 Curry says she was sitting in a classroom when she "heard the loud booms." It took a second for her to realize what was going on. She and her classmates ran onto the stage and hid together backstage, trying to keep each other calm until SWAT officers found them.

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 2:20 p.m.

 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the school shooting suspect used a shotgun and .38-revolver he obtained from his father.

 At a news conference on Friday, Abbott said both weapons were owned legally by the suspect's father. But it's not clear whether the father knew his son had taken them.

 Abbott says 10 people were killed and 10 more wounded in the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School.

 Abbott said "we look to God to give the first responders, as well as the victims and the families, the guidance they need in the coming days and weeks."

 Abbott says he will organize roundtables around the state to discuss preventing further shootings.

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 2:10 p.m.

 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says 10 people are dead and 10 more wounded after a shooting at a high school in the town of Santa Fe.

 Abbott called Friday's shooting "one of the most heinous attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools."

 He says explosive devices including a molotov cocktail that had been found in the suspected shooter's home and a vehicle as well as around the school and nearby.

 The governor says the suspect said he originally intended to commit suicide but gave himself up and told authorities that he didn't have the courage to take his own life.

 Abbott said there are "one or two" other people of interest being interviewed about the shooting.

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 1:45 p.m.

 A 16-year-old boy who says he considers Dimitrios Pagourtzis a friend says the Texas high school shooting suspect is interested in guns and war simulation video games, but that he has never about talked about killing people.

 Tristen Patterson is a junior at Sante Fe high School, where at least eight people were killed in the shooting Friday morning.

 Patterson says Pagourtzis didn't show signs of being bullied, but that he rarely talked about himself.

 He says Pagourtzis would sometimes enter the classroom "acting a little bit down or sad. A little bit sluggish. ... But he never talked about why."

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 1:25 p.m.

 A sophomore says it was "chaos" when the fire alarm sounded at Santa Fe High School and people realized it was an active shooter situation.

 Sixteen-year-old John Robinson says he was in first period English class when the fire alarm went off.

 Robinson says: "Everybody was just trying to get away from the school. They kept saying there was a shooter, people were shot."

 He says he felt scared and simply wanted to get as far away from the school as possible. He and other students ran to a nearby Shell station.

 Robinson says he thinks two of his friends might have been injured in the shooting but that he hasn't been able to speak with them.

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 1:05 p.m.

 A law enforcement official has identified a person in custody in the Houston-area school shooting as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis.

 The official was not authorized to discuss the shooting by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

 Authorities say eight to 10 people, mostly students, were killed in the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.

 A woman who answered the phone at a number associated with the Pagourtzis family declined to speak with the AP.

 She said: "Give us our time right now, thank you."

 Pagourtzis plays on the Santa Fe High School junior varsity football team, and is a member of a dance squad with a local Greek Orthodox church.

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 Eric Tucker in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.

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 1 p.m.

 The emergency room medical director at a Texas hospital says the facility has treated eight patients injured in a shooting at a Houston-area school.

 Dr. Safi Madain at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center says six of the eight patients have been treated and released. Madain says one patient remains in critical condition and the other is in fair condition.

 Madain says all appeared to be high school students with gunshot wounds.

 Other victims have been treated at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. David Marshall, chief nursing officer, says one adult male is in critical condition at the hospital. He says that man was shot in the upper arm and is undergoing surgery.

 Officials have said eight to 10 people were killed in the Friday morning shooting at Santa Fe High School.

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 12:50 p.m.

 A student inside the Houston-area high school where several people were fatally shot says he was near the art classroom where the shooting took place.

 Eighteen-year-old Logan Roberds says he heard a fire alarm at Santa Fe High School and went outside. He says he then heard two loud bangs, which he didn't initially think were gunshots. He says he thought someone loudly hit a trash can.

 But he later heard three loud bangs. He says, "that's when the teachers told us to run." He says he ran with other students to a nearby gas station. His mother says she quickly drove to meet her son.

 The local sheriff says eight to 10 people were killed after a gunman opened fire inside the school Friday morning. Two people are in custody.

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 12:30 p.m.

 The police chief at a Houston-area school district says a police officer was shot and wounded during a shooting that killed multiple people at a local high school.

 Walter Braun is the police chief of Santa Fe Independent School District. He says the fatal shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School also left at least six people wounded, including a police officer.

 Dr. David Marshall is the chief nursing officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch in nearby Galveston. He says one man is in critical condition and undergoing surgery at the hospital after suffering a gunshot wound to the upper arm. It wasn't immediately clear if the man is the wounded officer.

 Two other victims are being treated for gunshot wounds to their legs. Hospital spokesman Raul Reyes says one of those is believed to be a student. The other is a middle-aged woman.

 Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says eight to 10 people were killed after a gunman opened fire inside the school. Two people are in custody.

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 12 p.m.

 Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took to social media to express outrage and heartbreak after the latest school shooting in Texas where authorities say a gunman opened fire killing eight to 10 people.

 Marjory Stoneman Douglas students Jaclyn Corin said in a tweet Friday that her "heart is so heavy" for the students at Santa Fe High School, telling them Parkland will stand with them.

 She also directed her frustration at President Donald Trump, urging him to "DO SOMETHING" because children are being killed.

 Classmate David Hogg warned the city that politicians would soon descend on the school acting like they care but are only looking to boost approval ratings.

 Corin and Hogg were part of a grassroots movement that rallied hundreds of thousands for gun reform.

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 11:50 a.m.

 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is headed to the scene of a school shooting outside Houston where officials say as many as 10 people were killed.

 Abbott tweeted Friday that he was on his way to Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston. The Republican said an afternoon press conference was planned.

 Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says most of the victims were students. He says authorities have also detained two people believed to be students.

 Gonzalez says authorities didn't yet have information on the weapon or weapons used.

 The White House says President Donald Trump spoke with Abbott to offer his condolences and pledged to work with the governor to provide all appropriate federal assistance

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 11:35 a.m.

 Authorities say possible explosive devices have been found at and adjacent to the Texas high school where a shooting left as many as 10 people dead.

 The Santa Fe Independent School District said in a statement Friday that authorities are in the process of rendering the devices safe.

 There's no indication how many devices have been found. Police asked the public to "remain vigilant" and to call 911 if they see any suspicious items in the area.

 The school outside Houston went on lockdown around 8 a.m. after an active shooting was reported.

 Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says there "could be 8 to 10 fatalities" from the shooting. Gonzalez says the majority of the dead are students.

 The sheriff says one person is in custody and a second person has been detained.

 Santa Fe is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.

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 11:15 a.m.

 President Donald Trump is sending condolences for the "absolutely horrific attack" at a Texas high school.

 Trump is telling those affected that "we're with you in this tragic hour and we will be with you forever."

 He says his administration is working to protect students, secure schools and keep weapons out of the hands of those who want to do harm.

 He called this a "very very sad day." Trump says "everyone must work together" to keep children safe.

 The local sheriff says the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High school left as many as 10 people dead, most of them students. The school is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.

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 10:50 a.m.

 The local sheriff says as many as 10 people may have been killed during a shooting at a high school near Houston, most of them students.

 Harris County Sherriff Ed Gonzalez Harris County said there "could be 8 to 10 fatalities" from the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.

 Gonzalez says the majority of the dead are students.

 The sheriff says one person is in custody and a second person has been detained.

 Gonzalez says a police officer is among the injured but the extent of the officer's injuries is unknown.

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 10:45 a.m.

 Vice President Mike Pence says he and President Donald Trump have been briefed on the school shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston.

 Pence said the students, families, teachers and all those affected should know: "'We're with you. You're in our prayers and I know you are in the prayers of the American people."

 Trump adds in a tweet that, "Early reports not looking good. God bless all!"

 First lady Melania Trump is also weighing on Twitter. She says, "My heart goes out to Santa Fe and all of Texas today."

 Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following the Friday morning shooting. The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the reports.

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 10:30 a.m.

 Officials say at least three people are being treated for gunshot wounds and two people have been detained following a shooting at a high school near Houston.

 Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted Friday that one person is in custody and a second person has been detained following the Friday morning shooting at Santa Fe High School.

 Gonzalez says a police officer was injured but the extent of the officer's injuries is unknown.

 Gonzalez says there are "multiple casualties" but didn't elaborate. Houston-area media have cited unnamed law enforcement officials saying there were fatalities. The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the reports.

 Dr. David Marshall is chief nursing officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He says one man was undergoing surgery at the hospital Friday morning following the shooting. He says a juvenile has been admitted and a second adult is being treated in the emergency room.

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 9:45 a.m.

 Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a high school.

 Television station KHOU and the Houston Chronicle are citing unnamed federal, county and police officials following the shooting early Friday at Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.

 The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the reports.

 The school district has confirmed an unspecified number of injuries but is not immediately releasing further details. Assistant Principal Cris Richardson says a suspect "has been arrested and secured."

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 9:30 a.m.

 School officials say people have been injured in a shooting at a Houston-area high school and the suspected shooter is in custody.

 Assistant Principal Cris Richardson says the suspect in the shooting Friday at Santa Fe High School "has been arrested and secured."

 The school district also confirmed an unspecified number of people are injured but provided no other details.

 School officials say law enforcement officers are working to secure the building "and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location."

 Students are being transported to another location to reunite with their parents.

 One student told Houston television station KTRK that a gunman came into her first-period class and started shooting. The student says she saw one girl with a bloody leg as the class evacuated.

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 8:37 a.m.

 Law enforcement officers are responding to a high school near Houston after an active shooter was reported on campus.

 The Santa Fe school district issued an alert Friday morning saying Santa Fe High School has been placed on lockdown.

 Galveston County sheriff's Maj. Douglas Hudson says units are responding to reports of shots fired. He had no immediate details on whether anyone has been hurt.

 Santa Fe is a city of about 13,000 residents, located 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.

 One student told Houston television station KTRK in a telephone interview that a gunman came into her first-period art class and started shooting. The student says she saw one girl with blood on her leg as the class evacuated the room.

 Authorities have not yet confirmed that report. ||||| (CNN) The 10 victims slain in the Santa Fe High School shooting were not done with life. Far from it. As with other school massacres, the students had much more to learn and accomplish, the teachers more to impart to their young charges.

 There was a newly minted 17-year-old ready to celebrate with friends the following day, a daredevil who was up for any thrill and a Pakistani exchange student who was building bridges between her host and native countries when her father was disabused of the notion that her life would be safe in America.

 All the victims have been identified, according to a statement from First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Petroff in Galveston County. Thirteen others were injured.

 Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt has offered to pay for the victims' funerals, according to a Houston Texans spokeswoman.

 Here's what we know about those who were killed:

 Aaron Kyle McLeod

 Aaron Kyle McLeod

 Kyle McLeod was born in Chico, California, and had been living in Santa Fe since 2011, according to an obituary posted by a local funeral home.

 The 15-year-old freshman counted biology and history among his favorite subjects and "was a bright student and a great athlete who enjoyed a good tennis match against his sister," the obituary said.

 "Kyle was also a huge movie buff and especially liked watching musicals, but his favorite pastime was playing on his PlayStation," it said. "He was a wonderful son, brother, grandson and friend. His sweet and loving spirit will be greatly missed by all."

 Angelique Ramirez

 Angelique Ramirez

 Angelique Ramirez, 15, was part of the youth ministry at Dayspring Church, senior pastor Brad Drake told CNN affiliate KRPC

 She often accompanied her brother to Sunday services at the church she attended with her parents, he said. He described Angelique as "a sweet young lady (who) had a style all of her own" and recalled she was often sporting new hairstyles.

 Her aunt, Sylvia Pritchett, posted on Facebook, "All I know is you will forever be our rainbow baby girl! Every rainbow will represent you, just the same way you lived life and affected everyone who was blessed to be a part of your souls journey.

 "You touched each and everyone one of us in so many ways, ways you didn't even know. Rest easy my angel, forever the rainbow in our lives, a reflection of what love truly is!!"

 Kimberly Vaughan

 Kimberly Vaughan, left, and her mother Rhonda Hart seen in an image from Hart's Facebook page.

 Student Kimberly Vaughan's mother, Rhonda Hart, initially posted on Facebook that Kimberly was in art class during the attack, and said she had been unable to find her.

 In a release Saturday, Galveston County District Attorney Jack Roady confirmed that Kimberly was among the deceased.

 Kimberly's mother has since updated her Facebook bio with the hashtags #fightforkim, #kimberlyjessica and #oneof10

 Cynthia Tisdale

 Cynthia Tisdale

 Cynthia Tisdale was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School , her family told CNN. Her niece, Leia Olinde, said the family was notified of her death Friday night.

 She was a member of the Anchor Bible Baptist Church in Pharr, Texas, Tisdale's brother-in-law, John Tisdale, said in a Facebook post Friday night.

 He also said in his post that his sister-in-law's husband, William Recie Tisdale, is "in bad health with a terminal lung disease." The couple has four children.

 Cynthia Tisdale's son, Recie Tisdale, told The Washington Post that his mother loved children and teaching.

 "She started substitute teaching because she loved to help children," he told the newspaper. "She didn't have to do it. She did it because she loved it."

 Sabika Sheikh

 Sabika Sheikh

 The Pakistani Embassy in Washington confirmed on Facebook that 17-year-old Sabika Sheikh, an exchange student, was killed in Friday's shooting and that Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry had spoken to the girl's father, "expressing heartfelt condolences."

 "Ms. Sheikh was in Texas as part of the Youth Exchange & Study (YES) Programme," the embassy said in a statement to CNN. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Sabika's family and friends."

 Her father, Aziz Sheikh, told CNN that his daughter "loved to read," that she enjoyed studying US history "to learn from the best," and that she wanted to grow up to become a diplomat to "make Pakistan proud."

 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sabika was "helping to build ties" between the United States and her native country and offered his condolences to her family and friends. "Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan," Pompeo said in a statement.

 US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale tweeted a statement on Sabika's death.

 "This morning, I called the family of Sabika Sheikh and offered my deepest condolences. As an exchange student, Sabika was a youth ambassador, a bridge between our people and cultures. All of us at the US Mission in Pakistan are devastated by and mourn her loss. We will honor her memory."

 Sabika's body will be sent to Pakistan on Monday, according to Pakistan's consul general in Texas, Aisha Farooqui.

 "There is a general impression that the life is safe and secure in America. But this is not the case," Aziz Sheikh told AFP.

 Chris Stone

 Chris Stone

 Chris Stone, a 17-year-old junior at Sante Fe High School, was killed in the shooting, sister Mercedez Stone said.

 Her younger brother was "adventurous" and "willing to try anything," including parasailing, jet skiing, ziplining and hiking in the mountains, she said.

 Chris played football and enjoyed video games.

 "Being a brother was his best job," she said. "Although he was the youngest, he definitely protected his sisters as if he was the oldest. He was always there if someone needed someone to listen or some cheering up."

 Chris was "definitely the life of the party, and one of the most understanding, open-minded kids I know," Mercedez Stone said.

 Jared Black

 Jared Black

 Jared Black turned 17 three days before the shooting, and he was scheduled to have a birthday party Saturday.

 Instead, he was one of those killed in Friday's mass shooting, according to his stepmother, Damita Kilgore.

 Jared spent a memorable portion of the summer with his dad, two brothers and stepmom in California, according to family friend Elizabeth Ann McGinnis, who is serving as a spokeswoman for the family.

 McGinnis established a GoFundMe account on behalf of the family to help them pay for flights from their home in California for the funeral.

 McGinnis was with Jared's father when he received the news, she said.

 His father "sat in misery for 13 hours not knowing if (Jared) was one of the victims," she said. "Then he got the devastating news after 6 p.m."

 Shana Fisher

 Shana Fisher

 Shana Fisher turned 16 just 10 days before she died, her aunt Ericha Fisher Farris said in a Facebook tribute.

 Shana was in art class when she was killed, her family said on social media.

 Farris said her niece should be doing all the things teenagers do.

 "She should be worrying about getting her driver's license, making plans for summer break, maybe start thinking junior year and making plans for college and what she wants be when she grows up," Farris said.

 Shana had a younger sister, her aunt said.

 "Life was not supposed to end like this for our sweet girl," Farris said.

 Shana's mother, Sadie Baze, told CNN she keeps expecting her daughter to walk through the front door, "but she's never going to walk through the front door again."

 Glenda Ann Perkins

 Glenda Ann Perkins

 Glenda Ann Perkins was a popular substitute teacher at the school. Her daughter, Ashley Perkins, told CNN affiliate KPRC-TV that her mother loved students.

 "I would like the world to remember her as a hero, of course -- a hero that gave herself to get other people out and safe in time," Ashley Perkins said.

 The family released a statement to KPRC, saying she would want the students and faculty of Santa Fe High School "to remember to keep their hearts open, to discuss their feelings with family members, friends, and counselors in order to successfully conquer this tragedy."

 "Words cannot express how much we will miss our Ann, who was an amazing and devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend," the statement reads.

 Christian Riley Garcia

 Christian Riley Garcia

 Christian Riley Garcia was a 15-year-old fan of country artist Toby Keith and his music, Pastor Keenan Smith with Crosby Church told CNN affiliate KTRK-TV

 Smith also described Christian as a fun-loving kid who was first to help, loved football, and enjoyed being outdoors. ||||| SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a .38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

 By the end of the day, a 17-year-old suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis — an introvert who had given off few warning signs — had surrendered and been taken into custody. Law enforcement officials said they found two homemade explosive devices left at the school during the rampage.

 It was the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a young man with an AR-15 rifle left 17 people dead and prompted a wave of nationwide, student-led protests calling on lawmakers to tighten gun laws.

 It was barely after 7:30 a.m. at Santa Fe High School, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, when gunfire first resounded through the halls, the opening volley of yet another massacre at an American high school that would leave students, teachers and staff members shocked, and in some cases bloodied. But they were not necessarily surprised.

 A video interview with one student, Paige Curry, spread across social media, an artifact of a moment when children have come to expect violence in their schools.

 “Was there a part of you that was like, ‘This isn’t real, this is — this would not happen in my school?’” the reporter asked.

 The young girl shook her head: “No, there wasn’t.”

 “Why so?” the reporter asked.

 “It’s been happening everywhere,” she said. “I felt — I’ve always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too.”

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 President Trump, in the East Room of the White House, expressed his solidarity with the people of Santa Fe, and said his administration would do “everything in our power” to protect schools and keep guns away from those who should not have them.

 Mr. Trump had also vowed to take action after the Parkland shooting. At the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes.

 He also pressed for an N.R.A.-backed proposal to arm teachers, and said he would favor taking guns away from potentially dangerous people.

 But Mr. Trump did not press for action on any of those initiatives, and Congress did not follow through. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday that the Justice Department was proposing to ban so-called bump stocks through regulations rather than wait for Congress to act.

 The authorities had not released the names of those who died in the shooting late Friday, but family and associates of some of the victims had begun to share their stories on social media. The family of Cynthia Tisdale, a teacher, said on Facebook that she had been killed in the shooting. And on the Facebook page of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States expressed condolences for the victims, which he said included a Pakistani exchange student named Sabika Sheikh.

 The shooting in Texas began at the start of a school day when summer seemed just around the corner. The night before, seniors had gathered for a sunset dinner and a Powder Puff football game, according to the school’s website, and the baseball team had been playing in the regional quarterfinals.

 Zachary Muehe, a sophomore, headed to school thinking about the late work he was supposed to submit before the end of the school year, and settled into his art class to work on a drawing project. He was engrossed in his phone, he said, when his class began to transform into a horror scene.

 It started with a boom, and then one or two more. “I turned around and I saw the kid who’s in my football class, I see him every day, and I saw him with a shotgun,” Mr. Muehe said in a phone interview. “I saw him in a trench coat. My immediate thought was just get out.”

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 It was Mr. Pagourtzis, a youth he recognized as a football teammate who used the locker next to his. “He had one sawed-off shotgun and he had a pistol,” Ms. Muehe said. “He was wearing a trench coat with combat boots. He had a ‘Born to Kill’ shirt on.”

 Mr. Pagourtzis, he said, began shooting as soon as he entered the classroom. “It was crazy watching him shoot and then pump,” Mr. Muehe said. “I remember seeing the shrapnel from the tables, whatever he hit, I remember seeing the shrapnel go past my face.”

 Mr. Muehe immediately tried to escape. He and his friends went to a back door in the classroom, which leads to a small courtyard, but the door was locked. He then went to a ceramics closet that connects to another art classroom, and as he took one more look at the classroom behind him, he saw students lying on the ground.

 “There was a girl on the ground,” Mr. Muehe said, “and he shot her in the head one or two times.” When Mr. Muehe opened the door to the closet, he said, he found students from the next classroom hiding inside. He urged them to run, and began running himself. “I just started running, as fast as I could to the other side of the campus, where I could at least tell someone,” he said.

 Kole Dixon, 16, a sophomore, said he was standing outside history class when the fire alarm suddenly went off. He sprinted out a side door, and heard gunshots in rapid succession over the sound of the fire alarm.

 When the shooting stopped, Mr. Dixon said that friends told him that the gunman first entered an art classroom, said “Surprise!” and started shooting. The suspect’s ex-girlfriend was among the people shot in that classroom, he said.

 Santa Fe is a town where a fear of hurricanes usually outweighs a fear of homicides, and residents seemed shocked by the scene that unfolded. Billie Scheumack, 68, said she saw students from the high school running, scared and clutching their phones, down her street, Tower Road, about a block from the school. A neighbor told her that some children had been shot.

 “In this little town, you wouldn’t think something like this could happen,” Ms. Scheumack said.

 In a news conference Friday, the authorities released few details of their encounter with Mr. Pagourtzis, but Col. Steven C. McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that police officers had responded quickly. At one point, Colonel McCraw said, a police chief rescued an officer who had been critically wounded. The TV station KHOU reported that the officer, John Barnes, had been hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the arm.

 “We know that because they were willing to run into that building and engage that other lives were saved,” the colonel said.

 Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said two police officers had been on the campus at the time at the attack — as envisioned by the school’s safety plan — and that they were “able to confront the shooter early on in the process.”

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 The governor said that the suspect had offered few clues that he would carry out a massacre of such scale, although Mr. Abbott did say that the suspect’s Facebook page had included a photograph of a shirt that read “Born to Kill.”

 “Unlike Parkland, unlike Sutherland Springs, there were not those types of warning signs,” Mr. Abbott said. “We have what are often categorized as red-flag warnings, and here, the red-flag warnings were either nonexistent or very imperceptible.”

 The T-shirt, Mr. Abbott said, appeared to be “maybe the only, if not the foremost, warning sign.” He added that Mr. Pagourtzis had no history of arrests or confrontation with law enforcement.

 “His slate is pretty clean,” Mr. Abbott said.

 The governor said that the suspect had information about the shooting on his computer and cellphone.

 “He said that not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting,” Mr. Abbott said, adding that Mr. Pagourtzis had ultimately surrendered and “admitted at the time that he didn’t have the courage to commit the suicide.”

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 Both weapons appeared to have been taken from the suspect’s father, who is believed to have obtained them legally, Mr. Abbott said.

 Investigators intended to question two other people: One was at the scene and had “suspicious reactions,” according to the governor, and another is someone who quickly drew the scrutiny of investigators.

 Many answers about who the young man was, and what may have motivated him, remained blurry or fragmented Friday evening. A photo of Mr. Pagourtzis shows a young man with heavy black eyebrows and a backward baseball cap, staring at the camera with lips slightly pursed.

 Some images on his Facebook page, now deleted, suggest a possible interest in white supremacist groups, though a direct link to his politics was not evident.

 Valerie Martin, a teacher at the junior high school in Santa Fe, had taught Mr. Pagourtzis in her pre-Advanced Placement language arts class. She said he was a bright student — he had taken part in the school’s competition for the National History Contest — and while he was reserved, Ms. Martin had discerned no reason to be concerned about him.

 “He was quiet, but he wasn’t quiet in a creepy way,” she said. “He was an introvert, not an extrovert.”

 Ms. Martin had also taught Mr. Pagourtzis’s sister; she said she had heard the high school had been hard on her, and that “she was bullied so terribly at the high school that she transferred to Clear Creek,” a school district up the road toward Houston.

 But Ms. Martin did not know if the young man had received the same kind of treatment, and said she had seen no signs of bullying toward either of them when she had taught them.

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 Some students at Santa Fe High School had taken part in a protest after the Parkland shooting.

 On a cold Friday morning last month — the day of the National School Walkout — Kyle Harris and 11 other students had stood outside Santa Fe High hoping to spread their gun control message to their classmates.

 One of them held a poster: “Santa Fe High School says #NeverAgain.” They read a poem by a survivor of the Parkland shooting, an event that was searing to them, but far away.

 “Being part of that gathering was me telling people to stand up for themselves,” said Mr. Harris, who is in 10th grade.

 One month later, the family of Sarah Salazar, a sophomore at Santa Fe High, held an anxious vigil at a Texas hospital, where Ms. Salazar was in surgery after being shot several times.

 Rosemary Salazar, Sarah’s aunt, said that she was in art class when the shooting occurred. Doctors were working to repair wounds to her stomach, her thigh and her shoulder, which was severely damaged.

 “They said that her left shoulder is pretty much gone,” Ms. Salazar said. “She’ll have to undergo a lot more surgery.”

 The family had spent 90 minutes calling and texting Sarah — and receiving no response — before finding out that she had been shot.

 Word of the shooting also spread its pain to Stoneman Douglas High. Kaitlyn Jesionowski, a student there, first saw the news on Twitter on what was the last day of school for seniors. It all came rushing back: the fear, the anxiety, the stress.

 “I started replaying what happened to us in my head,” she said. “Over and over.” |||||