In Maryland, a teenager shot and critically wounded his girlfriend and another student in a shooting at Great Mills High School on Tuesday. The shooter, Austin Rollins, was then killed during a confrontation with an armed school resource officer. News reports say it’s not clear whether the teenager was killed by the officer or whether he died from a self-inflicted gunshot. The shooting is the latest case highlighting the links between gun violence and domestic violence. Last month, Democracy Now! spoke with journalist Soraya Chemaly about these connections.

Soraya Chemaly: “You see repeatedly in these cases of mass violence, particularly where four or more people are killed, that the perpetrator had a history of attacking an intimate partner, a parent. It happened in the Boston massacre. It happened in Sandy Hook. And so, for many of us, you kind of just wait for this information to come to the surface. And we wonder: Why is it that this kind of behavior isn’t seen as an essential element to understanding lethality in public violence?”