Santa Fe High School to stay closed this week amid shooting investigation

By Christen Smith

Emergency crews gather in the parking lot of Santa Fe High School where 10 people were killed and 13 wounded on May 18, 2018 in Santa Fe, Texas.  (Photo: Daniel Kramer/AFP/Getty Images)
Officials in Texas said Santa Fe High School will remain closed this week as the investigation into a mass shooting that claimed 10 lives Friday continues.
Classes will resume May 29, the district announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Santa Fe Independent School District Police Department will provide beefed-up security for returning students.
In the meantime, authorities will continue gathering evidence at the suburban Houston school while local officials dispel rumors about the investigation.

“Objective criminal investigations of this magnitude are complex, arduous, and time consuming,” Santa Fe ISD Police Chief Walter Braun said during Monday’s press conference. “Considerable time must be taken to painstakingly separate fact from fiction and the truth from rumors.”
According to a police affidavit, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Jr. killed eight students and two teachers with his father’s shotgun and .38-caliber revolver during a 30-minute shooting spree Friday morning. He surrendered to police just after 8 a.m. in a hallway, unable to commit suicide as he’d planned.
Thirteen others, including School Resource

Source: Guns.com