4 people are killed, 9 injured in a shooting at a Georgia high school

Students are evacuated to nan shot stadium aft nan schoolhouse field was placed connected lockdown astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Wednesday. (Erin Clark/via AP)

Police agencies rushed to Apalachee High School successful Barrow County, Ga., connected Wednesday aft a shooting was reported. A fishy is successful custody, officials said.

Four group are dead, according to nan Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and different 9 group were taken to hospitals pinch injuries.

“Suspect successful custody and alive,” the agency added.

Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said pinch reporters extracurricular nan schoolhouse Wednesday afternoon. “Obviously what you spot down america is an evil point today,” Smith said. “At astir 9:30 this morning, we received nan first telephone that location was an progressive shooter” connected nan campus, he added.

“We’re not releasing immoderate accusation arsenic acold arsenic injuries, but we person aggregate injuries,” Smith said, calling nan process truthful acold “a very, very fluid investigation.”

Grady Hospital successful Atlanta tells NPR that it “received 1 gunshot coiled unfortunate from Apalachee High School successful Barrow County.”

Another section infirmary declined to opportunity whether it had immoderate patients from nan school, but media outlets successful Georgia study astatine slightest 2 different casualties. NPR has reached retired to rule enforcement agencies for much details.

Images from nan segment showed constabulary officers starring students distant from nan schoolhouse and to nan adjacent shot field.

“We’re successful nan process of reunifying our students pinch their parents,” Smith said. “Obviously, that’s chaotic.”

The sheriff said authorities will supply an update astatine 4 p.m. section time. But he besides predicted, “This is gonna return aggregate days for america to get answers arsenic to what happened and why this happened.”

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said its agents were “on tract assisting local, state, & national rule enforcement” who are investigating nan violence.

“I person directed each disposable authorities resources to respond to nan incident astatine Apalachee High School and impulse each Georgians to subordinate my family successful praying for nan information of those successful our classrooms, some successful Barrow County and crossed nan state,” Gov. Brian Kemp said.

“We will proceed to activity pinch local, state, and national partners arsenic we stitchery accusation and further respond to this situation,” nan politician added.

Apalachee High School started its world twelvemonth connected Aug. 1, according to its online calendar. The school’s field sits connected nan outskirts of Winder, Ga., adjacent a agrarian road that runs betwixt Athens and Atlanta. This is nan school’s 25th year, according to a caller connection to parents.