[Tony76]

Background
Date: September 4, 2024, 9:30 am.
Perpetrator: Colt Gray
Gun Used: Rifle (AR-15)
Charges: Felony murder (4 counts)

Apalachee High School is a public high school located in Barrow County, Georgia, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. It is part of the Barrow County School District and has about 1,900 enrolled students. The 2024–2025 academic year had begun on August 1, 2024.

Information
Officials identify shooter as a 14-year-old student
From CNN's Tori B. Powell

Officials on Wednesday named the person who allegedly killed four people Wednesday as Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.

He is a 14-year old student at the high school and is in custody, Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said at a press conference Wednesday.

2 students and 2 teachers killed in shooting, GBI official says
From CNN's Maureen Chowdhury

Two students and two teachers were killed in the Apalachee High School shooting, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said on Wednesday.

“There are four individuals who are deceased from this incident. Nine that have been taken to local hospitals with various injuries. Of those that are deceased, two were students and two were teachers here at the school,” Hosey said.

Suspected shooter "immediately surrendered" after being confronted by school resource officers, GBI says
From CNN's Elise Hammond

Official laid out the timeline of the shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday.

Chris Hosey, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation director, said the sheriff’s office received calls of an active shooter at the school at around 10:20 am.

Law enforcement arrived at the scene “within minutes,” Hosey said, in addition to two school resources officers who were assigned to Apalachee High.

The resource officers “immediately encountered the subject within just minutes of this report going out,” Hosey said.

“Once they encountered the subject, the subject immediately surrendered to these officers and he was taken into custody,” Hosey said.

Barrow County schools closed the rest of the week, superintendent says
From CNN's Elise Hammond

Schools in Barrow County will be closed for the rest of the week after a shooting at Apalachee High School killed four people, according to Dallas LeDuff, the county’s superintendent.

LeDuff said the schools will be closed while the district “cooperates fully with law enforcement.”

School resource officer engaged with shooter and took him into custody, sheriff says
From CNN's Maureen Chowdhury

He also said grief counseling would be available.

The resource officer at Apalachee High School engaged with the shooter and took him into custody, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters.

“Obviously the shooter was armed and our school resource officer engaged him and the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an OIS — an Officer Involved Shooting. He gave up, got on the ground and the deputy took him into custody,” Smith said.

No known connection between suspected shooter and victims, sheriff says
From CNN's Elise Hammond

Officials are not aware of any connection between the suspected shooter and the victims, the sheriff said at a news conference on Wednesday.

“None that I’m aware of,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said in response to a question from a reporter on whether there was a prior connection.

Law enforcement said previously the suspected shooter is a student at Apalachee High School.

Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said part of the investigation is “looking into every aspect of that individual, his connection here at the school.”

Investigators have interviewed the student accused of killing 4 at high school, sheriff says
From CNN's Tori B. Powell

Investigators have spoken to the 14-year-old student accused of killing four people on Wednesday at Apalachee High School, according to Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith.

He said officials have been in touch with the alleged shooter’s family as well, but did not provide details.

What we know so far
- Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey. Another nine people have been taken to hospitals with injuries, he said. The shooter, who is 14 years old, is in custody. The accused is a boy by the name of Colt Gray.

- The high school received a phone call this morning warning there would be shootings at five schools and that Apalachee would be the first, law enforcement sources in Georgia tell CNN.

- Winder is about an hour outside of Atlanta and had a population of about 18,300 as of the 2020 census, according to the US Census Bureau.

- Governor Brian Kemp directed all available state resources to assist at the scene of the shooting. The shooter has not been identified by law enforcement, but was identified as being a 14-year-old boy, and was taken into custody alive. The suspect, 14 year old Colt Gray, will be tried as an adult on murder charges.

Notes
Will be updating as information rolls out. This is very fresh, and new information is sure to arise soon.

Sources
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/apa...-24/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_A...ng#cite_note-1

Information subject to change.

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[Nite]

thoughts and prayers will fix it

[z3r01]

Originally Posted by Nite ↗

thoughts and prayers will fix it

its people like you that laugh now but cry when it happens to you or a loved one of yours.

[MissMary1980]

No vids? WPD got some . . Man what happened we all used to be on it to post all the good shit.

[Tony76]

Originally Posted by MissMary1980 ↗

No vids? WPD got some . . Man what happened we all used to be on it to post all the good shit.

It's still very fresh and new, or at least was when I posted it. The kid surrendered, so there might be some footage of the arrest if the police use body-cam footage in Georgia. Let me know of any footage you can find right now and I'll edit it in for sure.

[Nite]

Originally Posted by z3r01 ↗

its people like you that laugh now but cry when it happens to you or a loved one of yours.

[Silky]

Yep. Judges in American court rooms send people to their deaths with the death penalty, or make them die slow with life sentences, the hardest criminals, yet not 1 mass shooting at a court, why? Because someone is armed around every corner. You can't tell me that can't be the same for schools in America. Why do pieces of shits choose schools? Because they're vulnerable. If every school was armed like a court house, there'd be no more school shootings.

[cincyguy]

yea you can go ahead and pay all the money for that! LOL

[kellyhound]

pop pop pop. The 385th mass shooting this year so far. Students Mason Schermerhorn & Christian Angulo, both 14, and math teachers Richard Aspinwall & Christina Irimie were tragically gunned down.

Lyela Sayarath, a student who was in Algebra class, was sitting right next to Gray when he asked to leave the classroom. He returned with a gun.

"I just remember the moment that it happened. He was at the door and they almost let him in," Sayarath told.

She described Gray as quiet and shy, typically only speaking in one-word responses and often skipping class. She said nothing seemed particularly different about Gray on Wednesday morning.

"It didn't feel real," Sayarath said. "I stayed pretty calm. I never cried or panicked."

Laila Fohrman said she thought she "was going to die."

"I prayed and I closed my eyes and tried to stay calm," Fohrman said.

Janice Martinez initially thought someone was "playing around" in the hallways.

"When this happened, I entered the class and then we were there for like, second period. So it was like during the middle of it, and I heard screaming and everything," Martinez said.

She said she realized something was wrong as the noise kept getting louder.

"I was like, 'No, no, guys.' Like, I told everybody to get down. Get down, because, like, you don't joke around with that," Martinez said.

Sophomore football player Jacob King told the Associated Press he had dozed off in his world history class after a morning practice when he heard the gunfire.

King said he didn't believe the shooting was real until he heard an officer yelling at someone to put down their gun. When his class was led out, he saw officers shielding what appeared to be an injured student.

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."

When Erin Clark, 42, received a text from her son Ethan, a senior, saying there was an active shooter, she rushed from her job at the Amazon warehouse to the school. The two texted "I love you," and Clark said she prayed for her him as she drove.

With the main road to the school blocked, she parked and ran with other parents. They were directed to the football field, and amid the chaos, Clark found Ethan sitting on the bleachers.

[Noose]

1- it's illegal for 14 year old to have guns in the first place.
2- A school officer stopped the shooter. Kamala and people like you want to get rid of school officers.