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This has been breaking over the last few hours. There was a school shooting in the small town of Winder, Georgia which is located east of Atlanta. The gunman is a young teen and it appears he killed four people.
Four people were killed in the shooting inside Apalachee High School, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Nine others were transported to hospitals with injuries.
Law enforcement sources said earlier approximately 30 people were injured in the shooting. It was unclear how many of those injuries are from gunshot wounds; the information is preliminary and subject to change.
The suspected gunman is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source told CNN.
There were some early claims that the gunman had been “neutralized” but those were false. The teen gunman is in custody.
There isn’t much information on the victims yet. Some reports say there were two students and two teachers killed.
Other schools in the county were put on lockdown. Parents have been reuniting with their kids this afternoon. Understandably, many were terrified by what happened.
Erin Clark was at work Wednesday morning when she got a series of text messages from her son, a senior, who was attending class at Apalachee High School.
“School shooting.”
“I’m scared,” he wrote.
“pls” “i’m not joking,” the flurry of messages said.
“I’m leaving work,” Clark replied. “I love you,” her son, Ethan Haney, 17, wrote back.
