At least four people were killed and nine injured Wednesday, September 4, after shootings at Apalachee High School in Winder, a suburb of Atlanta in the southeast United States, authorities announced. A suspect, a 14-year-old student, was arrested.
« Four dead. Nine people were sent to various hospitals with injuries “, the Georgia State Bureau of Investigation said on the social network X. The suspect is in custody and alive ” he added.
The boy is 14 years old. The teenager surrendered quickly after the intervention of the police and ” will be charged with murder “The shootings were a spree of murder,” Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia State Bureau of Investigation, told reporters. The four people killed were two students and two teachers, he said.
Multiple emergency vehicles and a large police force were dispatched to Apalachee High School in the town of Winder, about 45 miles northeast of Atlanta. The shootings are the latest in a series of deadly attacks that have plagued schools in the United States for decades. UNITED STATES – a phenomenon incomparable with the rest of the world. We cannot accept that this becomes the norm. “, said President Joe Biden in a statement, who has been trying for years, without success, to better regulate access to firearms.
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- RFI
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