Four people were killed and nine others were hospitalized after a shooting at Apalachee High School Wednesday morning.
During a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the shooter as 14-year-old Colt Gray.
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Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says a school resource officer attacked Gray shortly after shots were fired. Gray then went to the ground, surrendered and was arrested.
Smith says Gray realized he would be shot if he didn’t turn himself in.
They say Gray has been questioned by detectives from the sheriff’s office and the GBI. Smith said his statements “help our investigation.”
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Investigators are still trying to determine how Gray got the gun into the school.
The sheriff said all nine people who survived the shooting were shot “in some way.”
None of the victims have been officially identified.
A woman identified her father, David Phenix, as one of the surviving victims. She says Phenix, a curriculum assistant and coach at the school, was shot in the foot and hip.
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