The 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School was taken into custody and will be charged as an adult with murder over the shooting, which wounded nine others, authorities said.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH: At least four people are dead and several others injured after a shooting at a high school in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday morning. At least nine victims present at the Apalachee High School attack were transported to a nearby hospital as locals and parents gathered to see if their children were safe and unharmed.
Authorities were still looking into how the suspect obtained the gun used in the shooting and got it into the school in Barrow County, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. At an afternoon news conference, officials would not say what type of gun was used. Before Wednesday, there had been 29 mass killings in the U.S. so far this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. At least 127 people have died in those killings, which are defined as incidents in which four or more people die within a 24-hour period, not including the killer — the same definition used by the FBI.
Ashley Enoh was at home in the morning when she got a text from her brother, a senior at Apalachee High: “Just so you know, I love you.” Clark said her son was writing an essay in class when he first heard gunfire. He worked with his classmates to barricade the door and hide.“It makes me scared to send him back,” Clark said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”Traffic going to the school was backed up for more than a mile as parents tried to get to their children. Barrow County schools will be closed for the rest of the week as they cooperate with the investigation, but grief counseling will be available.
The FBI’s Atlanta office said its agents were at the school “coordinating with and supporting local law enforcement.”
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