(4 Sep 2024)
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Winder, Georgia – 4 September 2024
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Hosey, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director
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"At approximately 10:20 a.m. this morning, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office received alerts about reports of an active shooter and radio traffic from school resource officers concerning the same concern, or having the same concern. Within minutes, law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school who immediately encountered the subject within just minutes of this report going out. Once they encountered the subject, the subject immediately surrendered to these officers and he was taken into custody. Additionally, what I want you to know, as of now, 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."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Hosey, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director
"As the sheriff mentioned earlier this morning, the shooter is in custody."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Hosey, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director:
"He (the suspect) is a 14-year-old student here at the high school. Again, he has been taken into custody. He will be charged with murder. And he will be tried as an adult and, handled as an adult."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jud Smith, Barrow County Sheriff:
"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, or an officer involved shooting. He gave up, got on the ground, and the deputy took him into custody."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jud Smith, Barrow County Sheriff:
"My heart hurts for these kids. My heart hurts for our community. But I want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. I want that to be very clear and known. Love will prevail over what happened today. I assure you of that."
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STORYLINE:
A 14-year-old student opened fire at a Georgia high school and killed four people on Wednesday, authorities said, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms — and eventually to the football stadium — as officers swarmed the campus and parents raced to find out if their children were safe.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out.
The suspect, a student at the school, immediately surrendered and was taken into custody.
He is being charged as an adult with murder.
The dead were identified as two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, about an hour’s drive from Atlanta.
At least nine other people were taken to hospitals with injuries.
Authorities were still looking into how the suspect obtained the gun used in the shooting and got it into the school.
The investigation was still “very active,” Hosey said, with lots of interviews and crime scene work yet to be done.
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