A 17-year-old student Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been taken into custody after a high school shooting in which at least ten people are feared dead, at Santa Fe High School outside of Houston, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said Friday afternoon.
He said ten others are injured, including a police officer. The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the officer was “clipped” and is not seriously injured. “It is impossible to describe the magnitude of the evil of someone who would attack innocent children at their school,” Abbott said.
The Chronicle reported that his now-defunct Facebook page included photos “of a T-shirt that said ‘born to kill’ and clothes adorned with German nationalist iconography.” Abbott said there are two other “persons of interest,” including one who was detained at the scene of the shooting after police observed “suspicious reactions.”
Abbott identified the weapons used in the attack as a shotgun and a .38 revolver, both of which were owned by the shooter’s father. Explosive devices were also found on and off the school campus, according to the Sante Fe Independent School District.
The shooting began at around 7:45 a.m., witnesses say. That’s when the gunman entered an art class and began shooting.
Student Damon Rabon told CBS News that he was in a classroom one door away from the shooting. He said he saw the shooter in the school hallway. “He had a black trench coat on, a sawed-off shotgun with a pistol grip and I think something sharp on this chest,” he said. He added that his teacher pulled the fire alarm “to let everyone know to get out of the school.”