{"id":349,"date":"2018-03-21T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/208.117.38.13\/~rwltest2\/?p=349"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:35:54","slug":"school-resource-officer-quick-action-stopped-maryland-school-shooter-within-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/news\/school-resource-officer-quick-action-stopped-maryland-school-shooter-within-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"School resource officer’s quick action stopped Maryland school shooter within seconds…"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #a1a1a1; font-size: x-large;\">Nice work Deputy\u00a0Gaskill!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a1a1a1;\">\u200b<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/deputy-gaskill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"159\" \/>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/20\/us\/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school shooting<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was over in seconds. But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\u200bWhen a 17-year-old gunman walked into Maryland’s Great Mills High School on Tuesday, the swift action of the school’s sole resource officer, Blaine Gaskill, was instrumental in bringing the incident to a quick end.<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\nGaskill’s response was hailed as an example of exactly what a resource officer is supposed to do in such a circumstance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">“He responded exactly how we train our personnel to respond,” St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron told reporters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/news\/prevented-school-shootings-stories\/\">It takes courage and self-sacrifice to deal with active shooter incidents<\/a> like this, but so many at this school benefited from these actions. <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thank you for your service Deputy Gaskill, and all others in the first responder community!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/20\/us\/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN article here.<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice work Deputy\u00a0Gaskill! \u200bThe\u00a0school shooting\u00a0was over in seconds. But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer. \u200bWhen a 17-year-old gunman walked into Maryland’s Great Mills High School on Tuesday, the swift action of the school’s sole resource officer, Blaine Gaskill, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,66,19,64,34,32,65],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-hero","tag-maryland","tag-school","tag-school-resource-officer","tag-school-shooting","tag-shooting","tag-sro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}