Ten people were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a high school in Santa Fe, Tx., by a student wielding two of his father’s guns, the Washington Post reports. Police were investigating explosive devices found at the school and elsewhere in the community. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that another 10 people were injured in the rampage at Santa Fe High School, 34 miles southeast of Houston. Most of those killed in the carnage were students, said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The shooting occurred shortly before 8 a.m. The massacre came three months after a gunman in Parkland, Fl., killed 17 students and staff members at a high school. The Santa Fe episode was the latest in the seemingly endless string of shootings at schools, churches, theaters, offices, holiday parties, nightclubs and other places where people have been cut down by sudden, horrific spasms of gunfire and bloodshed.
Gonzalez said one male student was taken into custody, a 17-year-old officials have described as having an apparently clean slate before the massacre. Another student was being questioned. Abbott said a third person who authorities believe may have “certain information” will be interviewed by police. The attacker was wielding a shotgun and a .38 revolver, both of which were owned by his father, according to Abbott. He said it was unclear if the gunman’s father knew his son had taken the weapons. The suspected shooter was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17. He has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a peace officer. Abbott said that the shooter had journals documenting his thoughts on his computer and his cellphone. The shooter said “not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after,” Abbott said. Pagourtzis gave himself up to police, becoming a rare mass shooter taken into custody.