4 Killed, 9 Hospitalized In Shooting At Apalachee High School In Georgia

One person is in custody after multiple law enforcement agencies responded Wednesday to a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that killed four people and left nine others hospitalized.

Two of those killed in the shooting were students. The other two were teachers.

Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, told reporters that the suspect, a 14-year-old student, surrendered to a school resource officer. The suspect will be charged with murder, Hosey said.

Sources told CNN earlier Wednesday that about 30 people were injured in the day’s violence, including those who have been transported to hospitals with gunshots.

Investigators said there was no apparent relationship between the suspect and the victims, but that it’s still early in the case and further information may emerge. It’s not yet clear how the suspect might have obtained the firearm or brought it to school.

Neither Hosey nor Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith were prepared to discuss the extent of the injuries at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

Video from a helicopter operated by Atlanta News First showed at least one person being airlifted from the scene at Apalachee High, with multiple ambulances in the vicinity. Officials told the outlet that the person being airlifted had been taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, a level 1 trauma center in Atlanta.

Ciera Roberts, a spokesperson for Barrow County Schools, told HuffPost that all schools in the district were put on a soft lockdown as soon as Apalachee locked down. Approximately 1,900 students attend the school.

All Barrow County schools will be closed the rest of the week, with grief counselors available “every day this week and thereafter,” Superintendent Dallas LeDuff