Yesterday was the first day of school, and for the students at PerryHall High, it quite literally started off with a bang.
A fifteen year old student, Robert Gladden, brought a double barreled shot-gun, broken down, into the school in his back pack. During the first lunch period, he went into the boys lavatory, put the gun together, and then walked into the cafeteria, where he fired one shot – seemingly at random – before he was jumped and pinned against a vending machine by one of the teachers, who saw him begin to remove the gun from under his clothing. A second shot was fired into the ceiling in the melee. A seventeen year old student, Daniel Borowy, was shot in the back, and is in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma.
Robert’s Facebook page apparently said “This is the first day of school and the last day of my life”, and he came armed with 21 rounds of ammunition and a bottle of vodka.
I can only imagine the anguish of both sets of parents. You don’t want to believe such a thing could happen to you child, and you don’t want to think you son is capable of doing this.
Good Lord, deliver us.
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I can’t imagine the pain, anguish, guilt and self-questioning any of these parents are going through. I find myself with the same question after Columbine, Aurora, or the Murrah building in OKC…Why?
I’m sure if it was explained to me, I still wouldn’t understand.