Maryland school shooting: Student injures 2, dies in gunfight; top updates

A 17-year-old male student shot two other students at Great High School in Maryland on Tuesday, in eastern United States (US), but the event was quickly “contained”, officials said. The shooter was killed in gunfight and the injured were immediately rushed to a local hospital.
According to local sheriff's office, a male student opened fire at a girl in the hallway shortly after school started, injuring another male student in the process. Other students of the school were evacuated to another school to be reunited with their parents.
School principal Jake Heibel had warned of a shooting threat weeks before the incident, but concluded that the threat was "not substantiated" after investigation. It is unclear whether the threat was linked to the actual shooting.
Great Mills High School is located about a 90-minute drive southeast of the US capital Washington DC. St Mary's County Public Schools said on its website that the law enforcement was on the scene. "It happened really quickly, right after school started" after 8:00 am (1200 GMT), Jonathan Freese, a student at the school, told CNN. "The police came and responded really quickly," Freese said.