Social media drew mass of teens together for 'skip day' before shooting

Hundreds of teens danced around a pavilion at a Greenbelt park last Friday afternoon, celebrating the end of high school with the annual “senior skip day.” The students from several high schools — who had converged at the park after hours of hopping around the county — sang along to music, and some waved water guns in their hands from an earlier playful fight.

Then, gunfire.

Screaming students ran from the pavilion and jumped over a chain-link fence. A student filming the events called out to his friend while panting and fleeing for his life, “Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, bro. Man, they shooting …”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/25/greenbelt-senior-skip-day-shooting/