The Roswell incident

JohnThomas Didymus, based in Lagos, Nigeria, and an anchor for AllVoices, has an article about the school shooting in New Mexico:

New Mexico officials have hailed an eighth-grade teacher a hero for saving lives. He persuaded the twelve-year-old boy in the Roswell school shooting to drop his shotgun after shooting and seriously wounding two students, officials said.
According to New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez (video), schoolteacher John Masterson risked his life when he heroically confronted the alleged school shooter, a seventh-grader, at the Berrendo Middle School gymnasium. "He starts to turn and see that the young man shoots and shoots, and then pointing the firearm at Masterson, who then begins to talk to him, to put it down. The young man put the gun down and raised his hands," Martinez told reporters at a recent news conference. After he persuaded the boy to drop his gun, Masterson held him against the wall until officers arrived at the scene.
Speaking at a prayer vigil, Martinez said: "Masterson stood there and allowed the gun to be pointed right at him so there would be no more young kids hurt."
Masterson told The Albuquerque Journal: "It was a harrowing experience. All I can say was the staff there did a great job."
School and police officials said previous "active shooter" drills by the Roswell Independent School District helped to prepare students for the incident. Student and teachers exited the school in an orderly fashion, according to police authorities. According to CBS News, some students said that at first they thought the incident was only a drill. One of the students said: "I thought it was a drill. I really did. Then, I realized it wasn't."
The suspected shooter had reportedly warned some of his schoolmates not to come to school. He sneaked a shotgun into the school in a musical instrument case, entered the school gym and opened fire at about 8 am.
An eighth-grader told the AP that the boy bumped into her with an apology as he rushed into the gym. She said she watched as he pulled a gun from a musical instrument case and opened fire, shooting a boy twice in the side of the face and neck; and a girl in the right shoulder. "Then he shot up in the sky, then dropped the gun, and then some teacher grabbed the kid that had the gun,” the student said.
New Mexico Police Chief Pete Kassetas said: "We've confirmed that it is a twenty-gauge shotgun and that the stock, the wood stock was sawed off."
Officials at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas said the two students wounded in the shooting— an eleven-year-old boy and a thirteen-year-old girl— were flown to the hospital in serious condition.
Martinez told reporters the boy had undergone two surgeries while the girl, Kendal Sanders, thirteen, was in a stable condition. Officials said the boy's family asked that his name not be disclosed. Authorities have also not released the name of the alleged shooter.
Kassetas told reporters that, contrary to previous reports, police have no evidence the wounded boy was a primary target. He also said the motive for the shooting remains unknown, telling reporters: "We just don't have a lot of information." He said investigators were "looking at social media outlets and the different forms of communication these kids use to talk to each other."
A schoolmate said he was not aware of a prior incident of bullying. He said: "He just ran in there and just shot, really."
The Associated Press reports that Attorney Robert Gorence, who represents the alleged shooter's family, said the boy was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Albuquerque after a hearing. He said the family would release a formal statement today.
Schoolmates described the suspected shooter as a "nice kid", and a member of the school football team. Neighbors also described him as a "nice kid" who liked music.
Police said they have not been able to confirm how the boy obtained the shotgun, but a search warrant was issued for his parent's home, his bag, and locker.
The latest incident will raise questions, once again, how to keep schools safe, beside enacting regulations which make it more difficult for people to obtain guns casually.

Rico says he'd hoped never to type 'school shooting' again... But there's doubtless some stupid and/or careless gub owner in the family who let this happen and, hopefully, will share the conviction with the stupid kid.