Authorities on Wednesday (4) identified the shooter who allegedly killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, in the United States.
Colt Gray, 14, is a student at the school and is in custody, Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said at a news conference Wednesday.
Gray will be charged with murder and will be tried as an adult, Hosey added.
According to the investigation director, two students and two teachers were killed in the attack at the school.
“There are four individuals who died in this incident. Nine who were taken to local hospitals with various injuries. Of those who died, two were students and two were teachers here at the school,” Hosey said.
Hosey also said the sheriff’s office received calls of an active shooter at the school around 10:20 a.m. local time.
Police arrived on the scene “within minutes,” Hosey said, along with two school resource officers who were assigned to Apalachee High.
Resource officers “immediately found the subject within minutes of this report being released,” he said.
“Once they found the subject, he immediately surrendered to these officers and was taken into custody,” he added.
Authorities are not aware of any connection between the alleged shooter and the victims, the sheriff said at Wednesday’s news conference.
“None that I know of,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said in response to a reporter’s question about whether there was a prior connection.
“Obviously the shooter was armed and our school resource officer made contact with him, and the shooter quickly realized that if he didn’t desist, this was going to end in an OIS — an officer-involved shooting. He desist, fell to the ground and the deputy took him into custody,” Smith said.
He said authorities had also contacted the alleged shooter’s family but did not provide details.
Schools in Barrow County will be closed for the rest of the week, according to Dallas LeDuff, the county superintendent.
LeDuff said schools will remain closed while the district “fully cooperates with law enforcement.”
He also said grief counseling would be available.
This content was originally published in US school shooter identified as 14-year-old student; 4 died in attack on the CNN Brasil website.
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