Four people were killed and nine others hospitalized in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday.
The suspected gunman is in custody and was identified as a 14-year-old student of the school, which is about an hour outside of Atlanta.
Victims
The four people killed have been identified as:
Mason Schermerhorn, a 14-year-old student
Christian Angulo, a 14-year-old student
Richard Aspinwall, a teacher
Christina Irimie, a teacher
The adults killed were both math teachers, and Aspinwall was also an assistant football coach, according to the school’s website.
Nine other people — eight students and one teacher — were wounded and hospitalized, all of whom are expected to survive.
Suspected shooter
The suspected gunman has been identified as Colt Gray.
Gray will be charged with murder and tried as an adult.
Gray was questioned by law enforcement last year regarding “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time,” according to FBI Atlanta and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. At that time, there was no probable cause for arrest.
boy accused of killing four people at his high school in Georgia was interviewed last year by police about anonymous online threats, the FBI has said.
Colt Gray, 14, denied to police in May 2023 he was behind internet posts that contained images of guns, warning of a school shooting.
The suspect opened fire on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in the city of Winder, killing two teachers and two pupils, investigators say. Eight students and one teacher were injured.
He was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult.
Police have identified the victims as teachers Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall and 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo.
In a news conference, Georgia Bureau of Investigation director Chris Hosey said the gun used was an "AR-platform style weapon".
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The FBI said its National Threat Operations Center had alerted local law enforcement in May 2023 after receiving anonymous tips about "online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time".
The agency said that within 24 hours investigators had determined that the threats originated in Georgia.
