A 14-year-old boy is to be charged with murder after four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, that broke out around 10:20 a.m. Wednesday.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey identified the shooter as Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High.
Hosey said Gray will be charged with murder as an adult and those killed were two pupils and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
Of those dead, two were students and two were teachers, he said. Nine others were injured in the shooting and taken to local hospitals.
During a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the shooter as 14-year-old Colt Gray.
The boy, a pupil at the school, was arrested by two officers on the campus and was in custody, a spokesperson said. He will be charged as an adult.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith described the deadly Apalachee High School shooting as “pure evil.”
Smith says that a school resource officer engaged Gray shortly after shots were fired. Gray then got on the ground, surrendered and was taken into custody.
Smith said Gray has been interviewed by sheriff’s office investigators and the GBI, and that his statements are “helping our investigation.”
Investigators are still working on learning how Gray got the gun into the school.
The sheriff said that all nine people who survived the shooting were shot “in some capacity.”
Two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting and at least nine people were injured. Smith said, “Hate will not prevail in this county.”
Four people, two teachers and two students, were killed and nine were injured after gunfire today at Apalachee High School in Georgia, according to state officials.
The 14-year-old suspect, a student at the school, surrendered immediately, law enforcement officials said. He is expected to be charged as an adult.
Officials have not yet identified the victims. The school’s golf coach was wounded in the shooting, his daughter posted on social media.
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