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Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Texas School Shooting Suspect, Is Greek

Police have identified the suspect in the Friday morning Santa Fe High School shooting as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis.

He has been taken into custody and is being held on charges of capital murder, after opening fire before 8 a.m.

local time, on the grounds of the Santa Fe, Texas school.

According to officials, 10 people have died so far; nine students and one adult.

Several more have been rushed to local hospitals, many of whom are still listed in critical condition.

Pagourtzis is being held without bond.

The Texas high school shooting suspect used both a shotgun and a .38 revolver to kill 10 people in Santa Fe this morning, Texas Gov.

Greg Abbott said at a press conference.

'Neither of these weapons were owned or legally possessed by the shooter,' Abbott said, noting instead they were legally owned by his father.

'I have no information if the father was aware the son had taken these weapons,' Abbott said," CNN reports.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who lives in Texas with his family, is of Greek heritage.

His first name, "Dimitrios," translates to James or Jimmy in English.

His dad, Antonios E.

Pagourtzis, was born in Magoulítsa, Kardhitsa, Greece.

The area, located in the Thessaly region, is in the central part of the country, about halfway between Thessaloniki and the country's capital of Athens.

According to Mr Pagourtzis' Facebook page, he took his two kids — Dimitrios and his younger sister — to Greece in 2013.

There are photos of the family at an Orthodox church, taken in Mr Pagourtzis' hometown of Magoulítsa.

The family has traveled to Greece a few times, but they usually spend time in Magoulítsa, according to Mr Pagourtzis' wife, Rose Maria Kosmetatos, who shared the information with a friends on Facebook.

Kosmetatos appears to have deactivated her Facebook page after learning that her son was named as the primary suspect in today's school shooting.

Mr Pagourtzis married Kosmetatos in Texas in the year 2000.

Kosmetatos' dad's side of the family is from Kefalonia, an island in the Ionian Sea.

The area is a popular tourist destination that is lined with stunning beaches.

It is unclear if Kosmetatos was born in Greece or in the United States.

According to Mercury News, Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a member of his church's dance group, which is a common extra-curricular activity enjoyed by Greek youths and adults alike.

The Orthodox church is very tight-knit and families that belong to the church tend to develop a very strong bonds with other members of the community.

Santa Fe, Texas, is about an hour southeast of the Houston metropolitan area.

Houston has a large Greek community.

There are multiple ways in which the Greek community can connect through church and other festivals, there is also an annual Greek Film Festival that takes place in the city, as well as online groups.

As far as Santa Fe, Texas, goes, the Greek community is rather small.

Out of a population of 18,250, .52 percent are Greek, which roughly equals 95 people.

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Is 'Roseanne' going to keep it real? - Duration: 3:45.

Is 'Roseanne' going to keep it real?

The "Roseanne" revival season continued its trek through social issues dominating the public consciousness with its latest episode this week, "Netflix and Pill," which centers on Roseanne's addiction to painkillers. Mrs.

Conner's bum knee, which has been referenced throughout the season, has been acting up and she's been stockpiling vicodin around the house as well as lying to her husband to get him to fill his own prescription for a back issue to add to her pharmaceutical haul.

The situation comes to a head when Roseanne, mixing the pills with a bottle of wine, has a bad reaction to the combina-tion on the pair's anniversary night.

In a moment worthy of an after-school special, Dan scours the house for drugs and scoops up a pile of prescription bottles — leftover medication scored by Roseanne from friends and acquaint-ances — and pleads with her the following morning at the family breakfast table to get her addic-tion under control.

The episode ends with the show's heroine pulling out yet another stash of medication – hidden in the icepack she's using to nurse her hangover from the night prior — promising the issue won't be tidily resolved between commercial breaks.

The to-be-continued nature of the ending was welcome in a series that some critics have said re-lies too heavily on the old-school notions and machinations of a sitcom.

While other issues — their grandson's gender-fluid dressing habits, Roseanne's bigotry towards her new Muslim neighbors — have all been wrapped up in a nice 30-minute, made-for-TV bow, letting the addiction issues linger feels like it lends more gravity to the issue.

But, with only one entry left in the show's nine-episode revival season — and promises from showrunners that things aren't planned to end on a negative note — Roseanne's addiction issues may have to linger in the background until next season.

That's a reason to keep watching. There's hope that the show's talented team of writers can steer clear of putting too fine of a point on the issue with more episodes to draw on for the show's next campaign.

It will be a test for the series, to see if its character's real-life trials and tribulations can live and breathe for more than an episode or two.

It might be asking too much from a weekly half-hour primetime comedy. But the tact shown ad-dressing ongoing issues will be a marker for the show's relevancy.

Is "Roseanne" a dinosaur from the 90s, complete with a live studio audience and tidy 30-minute sermons interspersed with slightly edgy comedy?. The answer is we'll have to wait and see — nine episodes just aren't going to be enough to know.