(5 Sep 2024)
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Winder, Georgia – 4 September 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyela Sayarath, student, shooting witness:
(First name pronounced Ly-lah)
"I saw him at the door and students went to go open the door, because nobody knew like what was happening, nobody knew that he was dangerous. And I saw him go back, I saw students go back to open the door for him. And they backed away. I’m guessing they saw something but for some reason they didn’t open the door. And I could see him kind of turn to the side, like what would have been my right, and then you hear gunshots. Was about ten to fifteen of them, at once, back to back. And then everyone kind of ducks to the floor. And we all kind of sporadically crawl. We don’t know which corner to go to. But we’re all crawling on the floor, pushing desks, everybody’s against the wall, move desks in front of you, get low, and then we kind of wait for the cops."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyela Sayarath, student, shooting witness:
"I mean I don’t know him. I barely spoke to him. He doesn’t really speak when he is there in school and he’s not skipping. He doesn’t talk. So I don’t really know him."
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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.
The dead were identified as two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, about an hour’s drive from Atlanta. Killed were two other 14-year-olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and instructors Richard Aspenwall and Christina Irimie, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said in a nighttime news conference.
At least nine other people — eight students and one teacher — were taken to hospitals with injuries. All were expected to survive, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said.
Lyela Sayarath, a student at Apalachee High School, said the suspect, who is also a student at the school, was in class on Wednesday morning. She said that he left, came back, was unable to get into the classroom, and then began shooting.
"I could see him kind of turn to the side, like to my right, and then you hear gunshots. Was about ten to fifteen of them, at once, back to back. And then everyone kind of ducks to the floor. And we all kind of sporadiacally crawl. We don’t know which corner to go to," she said, adding that students hid on the floor behind desks and waited for police.
Sayarath also said the suspect had transferred to the school recently.
"I mean I don’t know him. I barely spoke to him. He doesn’t really speak when he is there in school and he’s not skipping. He doesn’t talk. So I don’t really know him."
Two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out, Hosey said. The suspect immediately surrendered and was taken into custody. He is being charged as an adult with murder. Authorities said the weapon was an assault-style rifle.
The teen had been interviewed after the FBI received anonymous tips in May 2023 about online threats to commit an unspecified school shooting, the agency said in a statement.
The FBI narrowed the threats down and referred to the case to the sheriff’s department in Jackson County, which is adjacent to Barrow County.
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