Santa Fe High School shooting

Santa Fe High School shooting
Santa Fe High School shooting
	Santa Fe Santa Fe (Texas) Santa Fe Santa Fe (the United States)
Location	29°23′31″N 95°08′28″W / 29.39194°N 95.14111°W; Santa Fe High School; 16000 Hwy 6; Santa Fe, Texas, U.S.
Date	May 18, 2018 ; 7:32 – 8:02 a.m. (CDT, UTC−6)
Target	Students and staff at Santa Fe High School
Attack type	School shooting, mass shooting
Weapons	12-gauge Remington 870 shotgun; Rossi .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver; Explosives; Molotov cocktail;
Deaths	10
Injured	14 (including the suspect)
Motive	Acquiring fame/infamy (disputed & self-proclaimed); Hallucinations and delusions from psychosis outcast ;
Accused	Dimitrios Pagourtzis (found incompetent to stand trial; found liable in civil court)
Charges	11 federal charges; Capital murder of multiple people; Aggravated assault against a public servant;
Litigation	Lawsuit against weapons manufacturer by parents of victims settled out-of-court; Civil jury found parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis not liable, Pagourtzis and weapons manufacturer liable;

On May 18, 2018, a school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot, and thirteen others were wounded. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school, was taken into custody. The shooting is the eighth-deadliest school shooting in the United States.

Pagourtzis was charged with murder and assault, and with eleven federal crimes that cannot be disclosed as he was a minor at the time of the shooting. He was declared incompetent to stand trial shortly after being charged, and as of February 2026 is still considered incompetent.

Pagourtzis, his parents, and the manufacturer of the weapons that were used in the shooting were named in a civil lawsuit by some of the victims' families. A jury found Pagourtzis and the weapons manufacturer responsible for the killings, but his parents not responsible.