Community members in Richmond, Indiana, came together at a candlelight vigil Sunday to support the mom of a teenage boy who alerted police before he brought a gun to a school and turned the weapon on himself. 
 
 The mother called 911 Thursday to alert authorities "to the imminent danger," the Indiana State Police said. Her actions "likely prevented a lot of lost lives," police said. 
 
 The armed 14-year-old died at Dennis Intermediate School from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police. He was not a student at the school but lived in the area. 
 
 Dozens attended Sunday's vigil, where community members met with the boy's mother and prayed with her, reported local NBC station WTHR. 
 
 "She’s a human. She’s a mother. She lost her child," vigil organizer Shawn Wright told WTHR. "We wanted to bring her to let her know that she is supported too because at the end of the day she did a lot. She saved a lot of lives." 
 
 Candle light ceremony at Glen Miller Park in Richmond to show support for the community after a fatal active shooter event this past week. @rtv6 pic.twitter.com/KuNFDhvSCZ — Amanda Starrantino (@AStarrantino) December 16, 2018 
 
 The chaos at the middle school unfolded after the boy's mother called police around 8 a.m. Thursday to report potential violence at the school, prompting a police response and the building to go on lock down, authorities said. 
 
 Officers confronted the teen outside the school and the gunman then "reportedly shot out the glass of a locked entry door" and ran inside the building, police said. 
 
 The teen exchanged gunfire with the officers as they followed him, police said. 
 
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 No students were hurt, police said. 
 
 Because "someone knew something and said something," Indiana State Police Sgt. John Bowling added Thursday, "the school was able to follow procedure to help protect students." 
 
 The middle school remains closed on Monday. ||||| RICHMOND, Ind. (WTHR) – Dozens of people turned out for a vigil Sunday night in Richmond, following what appeared to be an attempted school shooting at a middle school last week. 
 
 However, the vigil Sunday was in support of the family of the suspected shooter, Brandon Clegg. 
 
 People showed up and met with Clegg’s mother, Mary York, and prayed with her. Clegg died Thursday from a self-inflicted wound after a shootout with police at Dennis Intermediate School. 
 
 “She’s a human. She’s a mother. She lost her child. We wanted to bring her to let her know that she is supported too because at the end of the day she did a lot. She saved a lot of lives,” said Shawn Wright who organized the vigil. 
 
 Investigators say it was York who called 911 Thursday saying her son was headed to Dennis Intermediate School armed with a gun. 
 
 Clegg was met at the school by police and took his own life after a shootout with officers. 
 
 York was not ready to talk publicly about the incident but other family members did. 
 
 Thomas York was Clegg’s cousin and says he had just talked to him a few days before what happened. 
 
 “He seemed cool, fine, not to stressed out about anything that’s why it was a shock to all of us. My sister told me it was him and it was like ‘wow,’” said Thomas York. 
 
 The teen's family says he was bullied. Not that it’s a justification, but to help understand. 
 
 “It destroys me to think that a kid would have to go and show his anger at a school and that he would go as far as shooting at people or towards people and had that hate in his head that no one cared for him or no one was there for him. It sucks,” said Thomas York. ||||| RICHMOND, IND. - — The shooter’s mother tipped off police that her 14-year-old son was headed to a Richmond middle school with a gun, WRTV in Indianapolis reported Friday. 
 
 Also Friday, the Wayne County Coroner’s Office identified the teen who killed himself after a shootout with police as Brandon Clegg. No information about Clegg was immediately available. 
 
 The mother called Wayne County 911 at 8:11 a.m. after the teen had taken another family member hostage and forced them to drive to Dennis Intermediate School, just a little more than a mile from their home, according to WRTV. 
 
 The call prevented a potential carnage at the school, officials said Thursday. No one else was hurt. 
 
 Because of the tip, officials were able to lock down the school and police got there just as the shooter did. The 14-year-old gunman shot out the glass in a door and entered the school hallway, but he wasn’t able to advance beyond the second-floor stairwell. 
 
 Police trapped him there and that’s when he shot himself, officials said. 
 
 "If that person hadn't made that call we'd be having a much different conversation right now," an Indiana State Police Supt. Doug Carter said at Thursday afternoon news conference outside the school. 
 
 WRTV requested the audio of the call from Wayne County's Emergency Communications Division, but the call is not being released due to the investigation. 
 
 Richmond is 66 miles northwest of Cincinnati. 
 
 Indiana State Police released the following statement Friday: 
 
 "The investigation into the shooting incident that occurred yesterday morning at Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond remains ongoing. This is expected to be a lengthy investigation and no time frame can be placed on when additional information may be available for release. 
 
 "With that thought in mind, it is reasonable to expect investigators have, or will be speaking with anyone who has knowledge of the deceased, as well as interviewing school staff, students and neighbors. 
 
 "Detectives and crime scene technicians released the school back to the Richmond School Corporation late this morning. 
 
 "It is important to emphasize that due to the result of advance notification of the potential for a violent act at the school, the school was able to initiate their lockdown procedure yesterday and police were able to have a rapid response, which undoubtedly prevented injury to students and faculty. This is all the information that will be released at this time." 
 
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– An Indiana mom made a heart-wrenching choice, and now her community is rallying around her. Dozens showed up for a candlelight vigil Sunday in Richmond to support Mary York, who called 911 Thursday to warn that her son was going to Dennis Intermediate School with a gun, per ABC News and WTHR. Police confronted 14-year-old Brandon Clegg at the school and engaged him in a shootout before he took his own life. Clegg's family says he had been bullied at school, which they say is no justification—just an explanation of what happened. "It destroys me to think that a kid would have to go and show his anger at a school and that he would go as far as shooting at people..." says his cousin, Thomas York. "It sucks." But most of the attention is going to Brandon's mom, 42, who made a difficult phone call that almost certainly saved lives. "She's a human. She's a mother," says vigil organizer Shawn Wright. "She lost her child." As an Indiana state police superintendent tells WCPO: "If [York] hadn't made that call, we'd be having a much different conversation right now." (On the sixth anniversary of Sandy Hook, there was a nerve-wracking morning.)