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Student Shot at MD School Has Died (Update)

Jaelynn Willey
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Jaelynn Willey

GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl shot earlier this week at her Maryland high school has died.
 
The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office said Friday that Jaelynn Willey died at 11:34 p.m. Thursday.
 
Earlier Thursday night, Willey's family said Jaelynn would be taken off life support at University of Maryland Prince George's Hospital Center.
 
Jaelynn was shot in the head Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School by 17-year-old Austin Rollins. Police say the two had been in a relationship that recently ended.
 
A 14-year-old student, Desmond Barnes, was also injured.
 
Rollins was killed in the attack. It remains unclear whether he committed suicide or was shot by a school resource officer who responded to the attack.
 
The sheriff's office said Jaelynn was surrounded by her family when she died.

March for Our Lives

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A former coach at the school is rallying support to help get students to the March for Our Lives on Saturday.

He'd been in a relationship with before exchanging gunfire with a sheriff's deputy. The shooter was killed and another student was critically injured.

Aaron Foreman posted a video Wednesday on Facebook calling for donations so that students could attend the Washington march.

The march is in support of stronger gun control measures.

Foreman says in an interview that churches have donated vans, stores have given food and gift cards and others offered to buy Metro cards.

His daughter graduated from Great Mills last year. He says: "This could've been her."

According to Foreman, about 60 students so far are planning to attend.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.