April 19th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
A school safety expert who has studied school shootings for years advised Maryland teachers and school resource officers to throw out the common “profile” of who they think could end up bringing a gun to school.
School shooters “look like a lot of different things,” said Bill Modzeleski during a presentation Thursday on school safety held at the National Guard armory in Annapolis.
When he studied individual cases, “physically they were different; academically they were different,” he said.
While the stereotype of the social-outcast shooter exists, Modzeleski said they don’t make up the majority of school shooters. “The kids who were socially excluded were relatively few,” and often they came from what appeared to be stable families. Many of them “were actually doing pretty well in school,” he added.
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