RIP.

I feel a weary sorrow every time I hear about a school shooting. They seem to come with regularity, and although they are all slightly different, they all seem somewhat similar as well.

Initial reports were that five were killed, including the shooter, and five injured. But a more recent article says the dead are a teacher and the shooter, who was a teenage student at the school, and six are injured (two of them in critical condition).

We don’t know many details at this point. It sounds to me – and this is a complete and total guess – that the shooter may have committed suicide after killing the teacher and injuring the students.

And now I see this confusing report that a teacher and a teenage student were killed in addition to the shooter, and that the shooter killed himself but the police aren’t revealing the student’s gender at this time. And yet the article uses the term “himself.” Which makes the situation seem to resemble that of the Nashville trans shooter Audrey Hale. But I have no idea what the true story is.