Georgia school shooting live updates: Two students, 2 teachers killed by 14-year-old gunman

Republican congressman Mike Collins, known for his heavily pro-gun stance, has been blasted online after posting that “not-all” of those wounded in the incident were injured by firearms.

“Very sad to confirm there have been four fatalities from the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, GA. Many others wounded, but not all gun-related or life-threatening injuries, some from efforts to flee danger,” he wrote.

Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith earlier told reporters that all nine of those injured were shot “in some capacity.” Four others were killed.

The FBI says that it investigated Georgia shooting suspect Colt Gray for allegedly making online threats of in May 2023.

The Bureau’s Atlanta office put out a statement confirming an investigation was carried out after photos of guns were posted online.

The suspect, who was then 13, was found by Jackson County Sheriff’s Office deputies and interviewed, according to the FBI.

His father told investigators that the family had hunting guns in the house but that the teenager did not have “unsupervised access” to them.

The boy denied that he had made the threats and the FBI says that there was “no probable cause” to arrest him or take any further legal action.

Zoe Gray, an 11th grade student at Apalachee High School recalled how her class was “having a normal” day before students received a “hard lockdown” alert on their phones.

“I thought I was gonna die. It was like, it was so close – you here ‘bang bang’ kina like they were trying to get in a door,” she told WXIA. “Then you hear the police say ‘get the eff down’.

She continued: “I wanted to get out, I’m a very nervous person and I wanted to get home… I was holding some random kid’s hand my face was in someone’s butt.”

Zoe praised her teachers’ “phenomenal” response to the incident.

“We were just having a normal day it wasn’t anything different – it was just normal, bang bang bang – hard lockdown,” she said. “It’s something you never think will happen, you pray about it – Lord let me go to school safe,” she said.

Two of the four people fatally killed in a shooting Wednesday at a Georgia high school have been identified.

The deceased include special education teacher David Phoenix and Mason Schermerhorn, 14.

The parents of Schermerhorn, who is autistic, told Channel 2 Action News they first became alarmed when they couldn’t reach the teen after the shooting.

For more of what we know about the shooting, read Kelly Rissman’s full story below.

A suspected gunman who was taken into custody after allegedly opening fire at a Georgia high school on Wednesday is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Here’s what we know so far:

The US has suffered at least 385 mass shootings so far this year – an average of more than 1.5 each day – according to the Gun Violence Archive

The site defines mass shootings as those in which four or more victims are shot.

The 385 total mass shootings include Wednesday’s incident at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, in which at least four people were killed.

Apalache High School in Barrow County, Georgia, is the latest school across the US to experience a mass shooting as part of the country’s gun violence epidemic, with four killed and scores injured on Wednesday morning.

Following the tragedy, Josh Marcus takes a look at the state’s gun laws: