Another day. Another slaughter at a school.
SANTA FE, Texas – The suspected shooter arrested after a rampage that killed at least nine people at Santa Fe High School this morning is 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
A second person of interest was also detained, officials said.
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, the Associated Press reported.
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."
Area hospitals reported at least a dozen others were injured.
The dead are expected to include students and staff, according to a senior law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak about the investigation.
An attacker was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, a pistol, a shotgun and pipe bombs, the official said.
"Officers inside encountered a bloody mess in the school," the source said, adding, "Evidently this guy threw pipe bombs all in there. We don't know if any of them went off."
The bloodshed 30 miles south of Houston is the worst mass shooting in America since February, when 17 people were gunned down at a high school in Parkland, Florida, according to a database of shootings maintained by the Washington Post.
What comes next? Oh, stop. You already know what will come next.
Treat the wounded and bury the dead. Name the killer and tell his story and then name the victims and tell their story, but not too much because that might make them real and not just a number. rump will say something useless and pathetic and not do a fucking thing. Democrats will wring their hands and bang their little tin drums for some new restrictions on guns they'll never get. Republicans will get off their knees and stop fellating the NRA long enough to issue their standard "thoughts and prayers" press release after adjusting the name of the town, the school and the date. The NRA will allow their blow job whores in Congress to take the lead and then after Fux News and the other right-wing weapons of mass distortion will scold Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for squiring crocodile tears and politicizing a senseless tragedy and that it's "too soon" to talk about that sort of thing (and it always will be).
The air will be full of words. Writers will write words and talking heads will talk. At least for a week or month or so. Then we'll return to our normal forms of empty entertainment and self-medicating with an abundance of drugs, booze, junk food and TV.
Does any of this seem...oh...familiar? It should. We've been here lots of times before.
And we'll be right back here again. Same as it ever was.
SANTA FE, Texas – The suspected shooter arrested after a rampage that killed at least nine people at Santa Fe High School this morning is 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
A second person of interest was also detained, officials said.
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, the Associated Press reported.
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."
Area hospitals reported at least a dozen others were injured.
The dead are expected to include students and staff, according to a senior law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak about the investigation.
An attacker was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, a pistol, a shotgun and pipe bombs, the official said.
"Officers inside encountered a bloody mess in the school," the source said, adding, "Evidently this guy threw pipe bombs all in there. We don't know if any of them went off."
The bloodshed 30 miles south of Houston is the worst mass shooting in America since February, when 17 people were gunned down at a high school in Parkland, Florida, according to a database of shootings maintained by the Washington Post.
What comes next? Oh, stop. You already know what will come next.
Treat the wounded and bury the dead. Name the killer and tell his story and then name the victims and tell their story, but not too much because that might make them real and not just a number. rump will say something useless and pathetic and not do a fucking thing. Democrats will wring their hands and bang their little tin drums for some new restrictions on guns they'll never get. Republicans will get off their knees and stop fellating the NRA long enough to issue their standard "thoughts and prayers" press release after adjusting the name of the town, the school and the date. The NRA will allow their blow job whores in Congress to take the lead and then after Fux News and the other right-wing weapons of mass distortion will scold Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for squiring crocodile tears and politicizing a senseless tragedy and that it's "too soon" to talk about that sort of thing (and it always will be).
The air will be full of words. Writers will write words and talking heads will talk. At least for a week or month or so. Then we'll return to our normal forms of empty entertainment and self-medicating with an abundance of drugs, booze, junk food and TV.
Does any of this seem...oh...familiar? It should. We've been here lots of times before.
These are the 10 deadliest school shootings since Columbine (15 deaths):
- 2007 Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va. — 33 deaths
- 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn. — 27 deaths
- 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla. — 17 deaths
- 2015 Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore. — 10 deaths
- 2018 Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, Tex. — 10 deaths
- 2005 Red Lake Senior High School, Red Lake, Minn. — 7 deaths
- 2012 Oikos University, Oakland, Calif. — 7 deaths
- 2006 West Nickel Mines School, Bart Township, Penn. — 6 deaths
- 2008 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Ill. — 6 deaths
- 2014 Marysville Pilchuck High School, Marysville, Wa. — 5 deaths
And we'll be right back here again. Same as it ever was.