Four people died and nine were hospitalized after a shooting at a high school in Georgia, USA, on Wednesday morning (4), according to information from authorities.
The alleged shooter is in custody and has been identified as a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, a community about an hour outside of Atlanta.
The dead were Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey.

Police are still investigating the shooting and the motive behind it. Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith warned it could take “several days” to get answers.
Here’s what we know so far.
The shooter and the victims
Two students and two teachers were killed, Hosey said.
The suspected shooter has been identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, Hosey said, and he will be charged with murder and will be tried as an adult. Investigators have spoken with the suspected shooter and have contacted his family, Smith said.
There is no known connection between the suspected shooter and the victims, according to Smith. But Hosey added that the investigation is ongoing.
Timeline
The sheriff’s department first received reports of the shooting around 10:20 a.m. local time, according to Hosey.
Police arrived shortly after the first calls, Hosey said, as did two school resource officers assigned to Apalachee High.
Officers confronted the shooter, who “immediately surrendered and was taken into custody,” Hosey said.
One student, Lyela Sayarath, said the suspected shooter left the classroom at the beginning of Algebra class. When the suspect returned near the end of class, he knocked to be let back in.
Another student went to answer the door, but Lyela said they noticed the gun and didn’t open the door. She said the shooter went into the next classroom and opened fire.
The answer
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were on the scene working with local and state authorities, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
When the shooting happened, all schools in the district were placed on lockdown, and police were dispatched out of an abundance of caution to all high schools in the district. There were no reports of incidents or incidents, police sources told CNN .
Apalachee High School received a threatening phone call early this morning warning that there would be shootings at five schools and that Apalachee would be the first, multiple law enforcement officials told CNN .
County schools will be closed for the rest of the week while the investigation unfolds, said Dallas LeDuff, superintendent of the Barrow County school system.
Atlanta Trauma Center and Other Hospitals Accept Patients
Grady Health System — a Level 1 trauma center in Atlanta, about an hour’s drive from Winder — received a gunshot wound victim in the incident who was airlifted, a hospital spokesperson told CNN .
Earlier, a source with knowledge of the situation, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital in north Georgia received two victims of the shooting.
The source said one victim is an adult with a gunshot wound to the stomach and was in surgery, and another is a minor with unspecified injuries.
Three gunshot victims were taken to nearby hospitals after the shooting, according to a hospital official, and five other patients were taken to the hospital with symptoms related to a panic attack.
Two shooting victims were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow with non-life-threatening injuries, Northeast Georgia Health System spokesman Layne Saliba said. Four other patients arrived with symptoms related to panic attacks.
Another shooting victim was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville with non-life-threatening injuries, Saliba said, and an additional patient was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton with symptoms related to a panic attack.
Georgia governor says he may send resources
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has directed all available state resources to help at the scene, he said in a statement on social media.
The governor asked “all Georgians to join my family in praying for the safety of those in our classrooms, both in Barrow County and across the state.”
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the incident, the White House said, offering federal support to state and local authorities.
“Your administration will continue to coordinate with federal, state and local authorities as we receive more information,” the White House said in a statement.
Attorney General Merrick Garland similarly said the U.S. Department of Justice “stands ready” to support the community in the wake of the shooting.
“We are still gathering information, but the FBI and ATF are on the ground, working with state, local and federal partners,” Garland said at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.
This content was originally published in What we know about the shooting that left 4 dead at a US school on the CNN Brasil website.
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