A male student was in custody on Friday morning after a shooting spree inside Santa Fe High School in southeast Texas. The attack left 10 people dead and several wounded, many of them students.
The suspect was identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas said that the guns used in the attack appear to have been obtained from the suspect’s father, who legally owned them. In addition to the suspect, the authorities said another student was detained as a person of interest.
Governor Abbott called the shooting “one of the most heinous attacks that we’ve ever seen in the history of Texas schools. It’s impossible to describe the magnitude of the evil of someone who would attack innocent children in a school.”