Four people have been killed and nine others injured in a high school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County, Georgia.
As per tragic reports, police received reports of an active shooting at around 10:20a.m. yesterday (September 4). The Georgia Bureau of Investigation say nine people are injured, while two 14-year-old pupils, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and two teachers, Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall, have passed away.
Another 14-year-old, also a student at the school, has been apprehended and will be tried as an adult.
Speaking at a news conference held after yesterday’s shooting, local sheriff Jud Smith stated: “Within minutes law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned to the school who immediately encountered the subject.”
Smith went on to describe the moment they arrested the 14-year-old suspect.
“The subject immediately surrendered. He gave up, got on the ground. And the officers took him into custody.”
RIP to the 4 victims who tragically lost their lives today in the Apalachee High School shooting. As pictured:
1. Richard Aspinwall (math teacher)
2. Mason Schermerhorn (14y/o student)
3. Christian Angulo (14y/o student)
4. Christina Irimie (math teacher) pic.twitter.com/Gfg7x4UWTL— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) September 5, 2024
The suspect has since been named as Colt Gray, a student at Apalachee High School, where the shooting unfolded.
Reports since the incident have revealed that Gray was interviewed by the FBI in May 2023 after they had received anonymous reports that someone was making “online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time”.
At the time Gray denied having made the threats and the teenager was not arrested.
Police have identified the suspect in the Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia #SchoolShooting as 14-year-old Colt Gray
Video of the gun used in the Apalachee High School shootingBefore you call for gun bans, remember, it’s already iIIegal for minors to own guns. pic.twitter.com/Abbiy47W2P
— Ape𝕏 (@CubanOnlyTrump) September 4, 2024
The FBI said in a statement: “The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them[…] At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.”
Local schools were subsequently ‘alerted’ for ‘continued monitoring of the subject’.
Later in the news conference, Sheriff Smith told how authorities are now ‘collecting evidence’ and ‘conducting interviews’.
Rest in peace to those who lost their lives in this tragic event.
