Crime & Safety

VIDEO: 'It Definitely Was a Shotgun'

Parents and students react to the shooting at Perry Hall High School.

junior Ryan Brady was "five feet away" from the 15-year-old gunman as a school counselor pinned the shooting suspect against a vending machine Monday morning.

"It definitely was a shotgun," Brady said of the weapon used in . 

Watch the video hear from Brady and another student who were near the site of the incident at Perry Hall High School. 

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There was one priority on the minds of Perry Hall High School parents Monday afternoon: reuniting with their children.

Perry Hall teachers and police ushered students away from the building and into buses or into the arms of parents. 

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Kristain Wilkinson, a mother of two Perry Hall High School students, said she couldn't believe that something like this could happen at such a prestigious high school. 

"It's just been a terror until I saw my son's face," Wilkinson said, on her child's first day in high school. "I pray for the people who were injured and I pray that God helps that child's soul who did this." 


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