17-year-old being held in custody following Santa Fe school shooting which claimed the life of 10 students

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A 17-year-old suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis — an introvert who had given off few warning signs — had surrendered and been taken into custody, following the latest in a series of school shootings which rocked the small Southeast Texas town of Santa Fe, on Friday morning.

Pagourtzis, armed with a shotgun and a .38 revolver smuggled under his coat, opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

It was barely after 7:30 a.m. at Santa Fe High School, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, when gunfire first resounded through the halls, the opening volley of yet another massacre at an American high school that would leave students, teachers and staff members shocked, and in some cases bloodied. But they were not necessarily surprised.

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