A gunman opened fire at Apalachee High School on Wednesday killing 4 and injuring at least 9. Stay up-to-date on details of the school shooting in Georgia with Fox News Digital.
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Police gather outside Apalachee High School after a shooting at the school Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A Georgia mother told a local news outlet that her 14-year-old son, who had autism, was killed by a gunman at Apalachee High School on Wednesday.
Action News reported that the mother of Mason Schermerhorn, 14, said that her son was one of the four people who were killed during the shooting.
According to , Schermerhorn’s family members had circulated photos of him on social media in the wake of the shooting in an attempt to contact him.
The alleged shooter who killed four people at a Georgia high school and wounded nine others Wednesday previously made threats online to commit a school shooting, the FBI said.
In a joint statement, the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said the agency’s National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip in May 2023 about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting.
The threats contained images of guns, the FBI said.
Within 24 hours, investigators determined the threats originated in Georgia and the matter was referred to the Sheriff’s Office.
“The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father”, the FBI said. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them.”
The boy denied making the threats and authorities alerted local schools to monitor the child.
At the time, there was no cause to make an arrest, authorities said.
On Wednesday, authorities identified Colt Gray, 14, as the shooter who killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School. Gray surrender to authorities and was taken into custody. He is expected to charged as an adult with murder.
“As a follow to the Joint Statement just released, the subject referred to as the 13 year old is the same subject in custody related to today’s shootings at Apalachee High School,” the FBI said.
At the time, the family resided in Jackson County according to an FBI source, but have since relocated to Barrow County, Georgia.
GBI Director Chris Honey speaks during a press conference following a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage)
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has denied allegations that another student at Apalachee High School was involved in the devastating shooting that caused the deaths of four people on Wednesday.
Rumors on social media speculated that another 14-year-old student, whose name was publicized, was involved in the shooting, but the GBI said on Wednesday evening that those reports are false.
So far, 14-year-old
Colt Gray has been identified as the only suspect.
Colt Gray, the alleged gunman who opened fire
at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia, killed four people and injured at least nine Wednesday morning when he began shooting at innocent victims inside the school, police say.
At approximately 10:20 a.m., around two hours after classes at Apalachee had begun, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of an active shooter.
“Within minutes, law enforcement was on scene as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school”, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Gray, a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School, will be charged with murder and prosecuted as an adult, according to Smith.
Local law enforcement is coordinating both the investigation and charges with District Attorney Brad Smith of the Piedmont Judicial Circuit.
“The priority right now for us, within this investigation, is to gather all the facts”, Smith said. “This is a murder investigation.”
Read the full article about the alleged Georgia school shooter by Gabriele Regalbuto
Law enforcement officers work at the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
A vigil will be held Wednesday night to remember the four people killed by a student at a Georgia high school hours earlier.
The city of Winder, an hour from Atlanta, will hold the event at 7 p.m. ET at Jug Tavern Park. The remembrance comes hours after authorities said a 14-year-old teenager shot and killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School.
“The City of Winder will open Jug Tavern Park up to the community tonight at 7 p.m. for a time to be together and grieve for the horrific events that unfolded in Barrow County today,” the city posted on its Facebook page.
Gray surrendered to authorities moments after the shooting, which also wounded nine people.
The identities of the victims have not been disclosed.
A mass shooting at Apalachee High School Wednesday in north central Georgia has left four people dead and nine injured, officials said.
Apalachee High School, located about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta, had students and faculty evacuate the building and move to the school’s football field, where many students huddled in a prayer circle.
The Apalachee High School football team lost its home opener 49-7 to Cherokee Bluff Aug. 27. The football team is scheduled to return to the field for its fourth game of the year against Monroe Area, but the status of the game is unknown.
