‘Hard lockdown’: A timeline of the Apalachee High School shooting
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On the morning of September 4, a student rode the bus to his Georgia school with a rifle and knife hidden in his backpack, investigators said.
On the morning of September 4, a student rode the bus to his Georgia school with a rifle and knife hidden in his backpack, investigators said. Within two hours of arriving at Apalachee High School in Winder, prosecutors said he committed the deadliest US school shooting since the March 2023 rampage at the Covenant School in Nashville, and the 45th this year. Two teachers and two students were dead and nine others, including one teacher and eight students, were injured. Newly obtained emergency recordings and dispatch records from the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office captured the chaos and panic that unfolded inside the school as an active shooter was reported, and outside the school as worried parents got panicked texts from their teenagers. Colt Gray, 14, who was enrolled at the school on August 14 and had already missed nine days of classes leading up to the shooting, is charged with four counts of felony murder and will face additional charges, the Barrow County district attorney has said. He will be tried as an adult and if convicted, he could face up to life in prison. His father, Colin Gray, 54, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children. He bought the gun allegedly used in the shooting in December 2023 as a holiday present for his son, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
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