Student Dakota Shrader mourns with her mother. Credit:The Galveston via AP

Santa Fe: The mother of one of the 10 people killed in America’s latest school massacre said her daughter recently rejected the romantic advances of the Texas teenager charged in the shootings, a possible motive for the violent tragedy.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis yesterday appeared in court charged with capital murder and is being held without bail in Santa Fe.

In addition to 10 fatalities, the gunman wounded at least 13 people, with two of them in critical condition. One of those in critical condition was one of the two school resource officers who engaged the shooter before his surrender.

Nicholas Poehl, one of two lawyers hired by the suspect’s parents to represent him, said he had spent an hour with Pagourtzis since the shooting.