Shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia: Latest reports on victims, shooter, injured, etc.

Police and emergency responders have brought the situation under control at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. On Wednesday morning, the sheriff’s office received reports of an active shooter at the school.

Within minutes law enforcement was on the scene and the shooter was confronted by two resource officers assigned to Apalachee High School to whom he “immediately surrendered” said Georgia Bureau of Investigation director Chris Hosey speaking to the press.

Apalachee High School shooter 14-year-old student

Hosey identified the school shooter as a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School named Colt Gray. Hosey said that the teenager will be tried as an adult.

CNN reports that the school had received a phone call in the morning warning that there would be shootings at five schools and that Apalachee would be the first.

Four fatalities and several injured in Apalachee High School shooting

Before the shooting rampage was halted, four individuals were said to have been killed according to the GBI director. He informed that two were students and two were teachers at the school. Also, Hosey said that nine people “have been taken to local hospitals with various injuries.”

Currently, the motive for the shooting is unknown. When asked if there was any connection between the shooter and the victims, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters, “None that I’m aware of.”

Classes will be suspended for the rest of the week

Schools in Barrow County, which Apalachee High School is in, will be closed for the rest of the week said the county superintendent Dallas LeDuff. Grief counseling will be available as well, he said.