Throughout shooting that killed four people, many attempted to stop attacker and were first to aid injured
Students and teachers at Georgia’s Apalachee high school – where a teenager carried out a deadly mass shooting on Wednesday – are being praised for the bravery they demonstrated when faced with unimaginable circumstances.
Meanwhile, more information is emerging about the 14-year-old shooter who allegedly thrust them into those circumstances.
Continue reading...Students say that Richard Aspinwall left his classroom after the shooting started to try protect them
Richard Aspinwall, the mathematics teacher and football coach who was one of two teachers killed in Wednesday’s high school shooting in Georgia, was trying to protect the children in his classroom when he was killed.
His attempt to protect the teens in his care was one of new details that have emerged about the four victims killed in the gun rampage by a fellow student at Apalachee high school, in the small city of Winder.
Continue reading...Republican vice-presidential candidate was criticized for tone-deafness after comments at campaign rally in Arizona
America’s ideological split over gun control has spilled over into the presidential campaign after JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, voiced regret that school shootings had “become a fact of life” in the US.
Vance’s comments – in the wake of the latest deadly shooting, at Apalachee high school in Georgia – ignited a political row after Democrats depicted them as evidence of a lack of empathy while Republicans claimed the remarks had been taken out of context.
Continue reading...Colt Gray, 14, faces murder charges and his father has been charged over his alleged involvement in supplying the gun
The 14-year-old charged with killing two fellow students and two teachers at his Georgia high school made his first court appearance on Friday – with his father, who was arrested late on Thursday, set to appear shortly afterwards.
Colt Gray appeared in person, dressed in green prison scrubs and hands and ankles shackled to his waist at the hearing in Barrow county courthouse, having previously been understood to be planning to attend by video link. He traveled from the youth detention facility in which he is being held. He is being detained there as a juvenile, even though he is expected to be tried as an adult.
Continue reading...Officials say 14-year-old charged with fatally shooting four at Apalachee high school used assault-style rifle
The 14-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting two students and two teachers with an assault-style rifle at a high school in Georgia on Wednesday had previously been interviewed by investigators, with his father insisting the teenager did not have unsupervised access to the family’s guns.
The small city of Winder is in deep shock and mourning over the shooting at Apalachee high school, about 50 miles from Atlanta, as the victims who died were named.
Continue reading...Authorities say suspect, 14, also wounded nine others, with FBI later saying they had investigated him and his father a year ago
Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school on Wednesday in a mass shooting authorities say was committed by a 14-year-old male student at the school.
At least nine others were taken to the hospital following the incident at Apalachee high school in Winder, about 50 miles north-east of Atlanta.
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