Magruder HS Shooting

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There is talk of it being a ghost gun?

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McKnight isn’t going to miss a good photo op, even if it delays the students dismissal. She can have another photo op this weekend at the hospital, high fiving the injured pupil.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Magruder teacher if anyone has any questions. Kids were very good during the lockdown. Staff were pretty positive. All of us are new to this so it is hard to process it. Felt like a normal day. Lockdown was relaxed with most students just on phones. The worst part by far was not being able to use the restroom.

I agree that communication sucked. They wouldnt even tell us any details even though it’s all over the news/Twitter.

I'm sorry you had to experience this.
Can you confirm:
so no food, drink or bathrooms.
and held an additional hour to wait for the super.
and suspect was among the student body for 2 hours before apprehended (when parents? thought the threat was over)? Did you realize shooter was still at the school?

We were on lockdown. Police wouldn’t let us leave rooms for any reason. School was treated as a crime scene basically, so no one could leave rooms. No food or drink except for what kids had on them. It’s not like the cafeteria was open or anything.

We were not given any details or updates while in the building regarding events going on. Except for a photo sent out asking if that person was in anyone’s room. Not sure if that person was directly involved or not. No information about ongoing threats, suspect in a room. The issue was first treated as a health issue when the boy was found and ambulances were called. The school was put on lockdown to allow ambulance personnel to arrive. The first thought is that he injured himself intentionally but there was no knife. Then there was the realization that it must be a gunshot when the ambulance crew determined the injury, but no gun was found. So obviously there must be another student involved. It took time to ID the student, determine location and make a plan to remove student from the classroom safely. That explains the two hours of time needed before the suspect was apprehended and the lack of communication so that no one was tipped off.

Once he was apprehended, evidence collected , and they made sure no one was involved then the moved to securing the building and removing students. At that point there were 35 police cars and overhead news chopper and the local inspections had been closed backing up all the traffic. Obviously McKnight and others didn’t have a helicopter to arrive on site. Traffic was backed up for miles. Kids could leave in until buses arrived which is also when the McKnight and other staff were finally able arrive. There was not conspiracy or anything. Just traffic. Staff stayed until almost 7pm when we had a short meeting with no details given except a reference to “health emergency” and introductions to the the county staff in charge of things going forward. They asked us not to give interviews.

Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough response after what must have been a horrendous day.
You must have been a source of calm for you students.
Again, I'm really sorry for that this is happening so often in this country.

This is a bit too detailed for a teacher. Was that exactly 35 police cars? How do they know? Who told them?

This does not read as a first hand account at all. Just more MCPS propaganda.

Yep, I was there. 2nd floor. The kids new more than I did since they were scouring social media and communicating with friends. It took two hours for officers to escort students from each room and sort them via method a transportation. All in all I thought it was very professionally handled. Kids were great as well. The biggest problem was not being allowed to go the bathroom for a few hours. Reading posts here, there are certainly some inaccuracies in my summary. But it was my knowledge of events at the time. There were also some initial rumors that the person was shot in the foot and may have shot themselves.

I am not a fan of McKnight, but the McKnight bashing is weird here.

I cant help but feel the shooting stems from the lack of boundaries we have students now. It often feels there are no clear rules and consequences. Students have a lot less pressure to comply.

A lot of bad things had to happen all at once for this to occur. Most of it outside the hands of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are freaking unbelievable. Stop discussing McKnight’s clothes and hair. These conversations are being stoked by MCPS to distract you from the bigger issue of how today was mishandled.

You brought up her hair. What is it about her hair anyway?

Read the thread. Probably 10 pages ago

Her hair has always been like that. It looks fine and normal to me.

Just stop talking about her appearance. This discussion is nauseating.

Some posters are insinuating that she took her sweet time picking dresses while the thirsty, hungary and traumatized kids were being held up to wait for her.

I won’t speculate on that but I will say the shooting was at 1 and she sound have been there much earlier than when she did arrive.

DP. Nobody was allowed on the campus at 1pm - there was an active police investigation! Am I really reading this stuff? Call McKnight out on the real stuff - you are undermining your case here.

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Anonymous wrote:This student just went to class after he shot the other student. Acted like nothing happened.. the one who got shot was unconscious state. Wonder how they figured out who the shooter was?

He wasn't unconscious.

He was in and out of consciousness.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrifying. Definitely more scared of this stuff than Covid.

My 8th grader applied to the Aviation program there. Ugh.

Well, ok, choose another school then because certainly there won't be any school shootings anywhere else, right?

Why don't people understand the problem of guns in this country?

You think this pertains to this school? Why?

Right. We are all under massive hallucination to bear a huge mortgage to avoid sending our kids to certain schools.

Those high mortgage schools are having lots of issues too. They just do a better job hiding it.

High mortgage schools = better drugs. Is dying from drug-use any better than dying from a gun?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it too soon to discuss the fact that monifa grabbed her pink coat with the leapord print collar instead of something more appropriate for the situation

With the matching pink mask. She was an hour late which delayed the kids being released but that delay was important, because she had to look good for cameras.

You can’t be serious, right?

I wish I was. She was an hour late for the press conference photo op and purposefully delayed the release of the kids but she definitely had time to make sure that that her pink mask matched her pink coat with the animal print collar. It provides a small window into what her priorities are and it’s clearly not the kids.

This.
What a ridicolous statement. She thought that was elegant. You might disagree. That does not tell anything about her priorities.

You don't choose "elegant " for a school shooting. You choose "somber"

Its a pale pink, not a flashy fuchsia.

And how do we know she doesn’t always match her mask and coat?

My boss is very stylish and always matched her mask to her outfit.

Sheesh…I’m not a fan of hers but it could’ve been the mask she kept in the pockets of that coat. Did she have a police escort to the school? She wouldn’t have the ability to zoom through traffic without it.

Unfortunately I think she probably spent a good amount of time writing her speech and having counsel review it. I thought a lot of it was in poor taste-yes, school violence is reflective of a societal issue, but it was not the time and place to discuss it. The press conference should have been focused on what the mcpd had learned so far and how they planned to get the students dismissed.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it too soon to discuss the fact that monifa grabbed her pink coat with the leapord print collar instead of something more appropriate for the situation

While I'm not a fan of hers in the communication department, let's not do this. You would grab something you felt confident in too if you knew your face would be plastered all over the news.

Agreed. 100%.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrifying. Definitely more scared of this stuff than Covid.

My 8th grader applied to the Aviation program there. Ugh.

My kid goes there. It’s a great school. I’m very appreciative of how the school staff handled this. They had to be the first responders and they did a great job keeping 1600 kids safe.

The thing is gun violence is up across the country. And much of it is among kids. It could happen anywhere, unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrifying. Definitely more scared of this stuff than Covid.

My 8th grader applied to the Aviation program there. Ugh.

My kid goes there. It’s a great school. I’m very appreciative of how the school staff handled this. They had to be the first responders and they did a great job keeping 1600 kids safe.

The thing is gun violence is up across the country. And much of it is among kids. It could happen anywhere, unfortunately.

At least parents are finally acknowledging this. I can't stand quoted parents after a school shooting 'I can't believe this happened here!' It happens everywhere Susan - in small towns like Sandy Hook, in the wealthiest public school district in Florida like Stoneman Douglas, and in middle of the road communities like Columbine.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it too soon to discuss the fact that monifa grabbed her pink coat with the leapord print collar instead of something more appropriate for the situation

Can we please be done talking about the f’n coat? Such ignorance & deflection.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it too soon to discuss the fact that monifa grabbed her pink coat with the leapord print collar instead of something more appropriate for the situation

With the matching pink mask. She was an hour late which delayed the kids being released but that delay was important, because she had to look good for cameras.

You can’t be serious, right?

I wish I was. She was an hour late for the press conference photo op and purposefully delayed the release of the kids but she definitely had time to make sure that that her pink mask matched her pink coat with the animal print collar. It provides a small window into what her priorities are and it’s clearly not the kids.

What a ridicolous statement. She thought that was elegant. You might disagree. That does not tell anything about her priorities.

You don't choose "elegant " for a school shooting. You choose "somber"

She looks somber to me. I just wish that they had had kids reunited with parents much sooner. After all, who cares about her photo op anyway? It is a blunder on her part to make the anxious families wait so she could blah in front of cameras.

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Guys, I just googled her images and is always dressed nicely. Maybe, she had a meeting across town somewhere and chose the pink and she had that mask. This is not about her. I need to know who this shooter is? How he got the gun? Maybe the parents need to be charged like that case a few months back in another state? What do we tell our kids? How do we prepare our kids for something like this? These are the things we need to worry about.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrifying. Definitely more scared of this stuff than Covid.

My 8th grader applied to the Aviation program there. Ugh.

My kid goes there. It’s a great school. I’m very appreciative of how the school staff handled this. They had to be the first responders and they did a great job keeping 1600 kids safe.

The thing is gun violence is up across the country. And much of it is among kids. It could happen anywhere, unfortunately.

This is bullshit.

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It is unfortunate but it is time to have a discussion about installing metal detectors and X-ray machines in schools like what DCPS does. Guns are not going away.