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14-yr-old Student Kills 4, Injures 9 In U.S. School Shooting

by Ruth Nwokwu
12 months ago
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A 14-year-old boy has shot dead four people, including two students and two teachers, and as well injured nine more others when he opened fire at a high school in the US State of Georgia on Wednesday.

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The suspected shooter who is also a student at the school had been brought to the Federal Bureau of Intelligence’s (FBI) attention more than a year ago for threats to commit a school shooting, the agency said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation disclosed that the perpetrator was taken into custody after Wednesday’s shooting and will be tried as an adult on murder charges.

After the latest chapter in America’s gun violence crisis with nearly 400 mass shootings this year alone, people gathered at a sports field outside Apalachee High School, some forming a circle with their arms linked.

“Our school resource officer engaged him,” county sheriff Jud Smith told reporters, referring to law enforcement officers employed to work at US schools.

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“The shooter quickly realised that if he did not given 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 police did not yet know if the shooter singled out specific people as targets, adding later that the nine wounded were expected to recover.

The two students killed were also 14 years old, authorities said.

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After the suspected shooter was brought to the attention of the FBI, the county sheriff’s office interviewed his father and the then 13-year-old suspect, who denied the threats, before flagging the child to school officials for monitoring.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Director, Chris Hosey said the shooter used an “AR-platform style weapon” and that authorities were investigating how he brought the gun into the school.

Some in the school initially thought it was just another shooter drill, one student told AFP, referring to the exercises common in US schools.

“Everyone just thought it was a fake drill until my teacher said we didn’t get an email,” Alexsandra Romeo said.

“She got us all in a little corner and everyone was just hugging each other, I had some of my friends crying. Until two police officers came in with their guns and told us that this is not a drill and that we’re still not safe.”

Another student, 17-year-old Stephanie Folgar, described hearing “loud bangs” and panicking students hiding in the bathrooms and closets.

“It’s scary knowing that that could’ve been you,” she said.

One student told local media that he saw blood on the floor and a body as he was led out of the building by authorities.

The shooting occurred near the town of Winder, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta, the state capital.

Earlier, school authorities were reported to have sent a message to parents saying they were enforcing a “hard lockdown after reports of gunfire.”

After the all-clear was given, parents were invited to the school to be reunited with their children, with long lines of vehicles visible outside.

School shootings have become a sadly regular occurrence in the United States, where about a third of adults own a firearm, and regulations on purchasing even powerful military-style rifles are lax.

Polls show a majority of voters favour stricter controls on the use and purchase of firearms, but the powerful gun ownership lobby is opposed to additional restrictions and lawmakers have repeatedly failed to act.

US President Joe Biden said he was mourning the dead.

“Students across the country are learning how to duck and cover instead of how to read and write. We cannot continue to accept this as normal,” he said.

Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire after the shooting, Vice President Kamala Harris said it was time to end the “epidemic of gun violence.”

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump said the perpetrator of the shooting was a “sick and deranged monster.”

This year, there have been at least 384 mass shootings, defined as a shooting involving at least four victims, dead or wounded across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

At least 11,557 people have been killed in firearms violence in the United States this year, according to the GVA.


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