The details are still coming in regarding the shooting this morning at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland. Two students were shot by another student. What we do know, already, is that the shooter was stopped – shot by the campus resource officer who was assigned to the school.

Initially, the two students and the shooter were listed in critical condition. The news has now broken that the shooter has died.

BREAKING: Sheriff confirms student shooter is dead after attack inside Maryland high school.

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 20, 2018

BREAKING: Sheriff: Resource officer fired at Maryland high school shooter who was fatally shot.

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 20, 2018

As of right now, there is a question of whether or not the officer shot the shooter, or if the shooter took his own life once he engaged in gunfire with the officer.

“Our school resource officer was alerted to the event. he pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, fired a round at the shooter,” St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said. “The shooter fired a round as well. In the hours and days to come, we’ll be able to determine if our school resource officer’s round struck the shooter.”

Regardless, the presence of the armed campus resource officer, and said officer’s immediate engagement with the shooter, including an exchange of gunfire, definitely turned the tables and kept this from getting any worse than it is.

The SRO took action.

The SRO limited the injuries.

The SRO did his / her job.

Unlike the Broward Country SRO at MSD in Parkland. https://t.co/fTI48fa8JI

— RBe (@RBPundit) March 20, 2018

Weird how when you don't abandon people to die, they don't. Speed, surprise, violence of action, bitches. https://t.co/tnZAe4SLPn

— David Taylor (@themysticgoat) March 20, 2018

The people who use MSD to push gun control need to be reminded that their SRO and the #BrowardCowards didn’t do their duty.

The SRO at #GreatMillsHighSchool did their duty, and saved an untold number of lives.

— Macsen in Orlando (@macsenoverdrive) March 20, 2018

There are sure to be more updates, but the sheriff’s office is giving updates. The male victim is reportedly stable, but the female victim is listed as critical.

I’m sure we will learn more details as time goes on (it is also reported that the shooter had a handgun), but the first thing to do is give credit where credit is due, and this school resource officer, who is apparently a deputy with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Department. That officer has saved lives today in Maryland, and we all should be pushing to have that kind of security at all our schools.

Take note, Broward County.