据佐治亚州调查局(Georgia Bureau of Investigation)称，周三上午，佐治亚州温德市阿帕拉奇高中(Apalachee High School)发生枪击事件，两名学生和两名教师丧生。
官员们在周三晚上的新闻发布会上说，理查德·阿斯平沃尔和克里斯蒂娜·伊里米是在这起事件中遇难的两名教师。他们还确认了受害学生的身份。
GBI当天早些时候表示，枪击事件发生后，另外九名受害者——八名学生和一名教师——因受伤被送往医院。
GBI说，嫌疑人——14岁的科尔特·格雷是阿巴拉契高中的学生——在几分钟内被警察发现，他立即投降并被拘留。GBI称，他将被指控谋杀，并将作为成年人受审。据一名官员称，格雷将于周三晚上被预订。
当局说，尚不清楚是否有任何受害者成为目标。
GBI主任克里斯·霍西(Chris Hosey)在周三晚上的新闻发布会上表示，在这起事件中使用了一种AR平台式武器。
一名执法人员在新闻发布会上说，由于教师有一种身份证明，上面有一种紧急按钮，应急人员对枪击事件有所警觉。他补充说，他们只有“大约一个星期”的这种身份证
周三晚上早些时候，美国联邦调查局在X上证实，杰克逊县警长办公室在该组织的警报下，采访了周三涉嫌2023年枪击案的嫌疑人。
“2023年5月，美国联邦调查局国家威胁行动中心收到了几份匿名线报，内容是关于在不明地点和时间进行校园枪击的在线威胁，”《美国联邦调查局邮报》报道。“在24小时内，美国联邦调查局确定网上的帖子来自佐治亚州，美国联邦调查局的亚特兰大现场办公室将信息提交给杰克逊县治安官办公室采取行动。”
该机构补充说，警长办公室“找到了一个可能的目标，一个13岁的男孩，并采访了他和他的父亲。父亲说他在房子里有猎枪，但受试者不能不受监督地使用它们。美国联邦调查局说:“这个人否认在网上发出威胁。”。
美国联邦调查局在其帖子中说，杰克逊县治安官办公室“提醒”该地区的学校“监控”这名青少年，没有逮捕的可能原因。
美国联邦调查局在随后的一篇帖子中补充说:“为了证实，被称为13岁的主题与今天在Apalachee高中发生的枪击事件有关的拘留主题是同一主题。”
阿巴拉契高中在巴罗县，离杰克逊县不远。
Hosey周三晚上说，执法部门知道家庭和儿童服务机构早些时候与这个家庭的联系，他们正在调查。
他还称赞高中的老师是英雄，他们阻止了一场更大的悲剧。
学生和家长畅所欲言
17岁的高年级学生塞尔吉奥·卡尔德拉说，他听到枪声时正在上化学课。
“我的老师走过去打开门，看看发生了什么事。另一个老师跑进来告诉她关上门，因为有一个活跃的射手，”卡尔德拉告诉ABC新闻。
他说他的老师锁了门，学生们跑到了房间的后面。卡尔德拉说，他们听到外面传来尖叫声，因为他们“蜷缩成一团”
卡尔德拉说，在某个时候，有人敲他的教室门，喊道:“开门!”多次。当敲门声停止时，卡尔德拉说他听到了更多的枪声和尖叫声。
他说他的班级后来疏散到足球场。
Kyson Stancion说，当他听到枪声时，他正在上课，“听到警察尖叫，告诉某人，‘正在发生枪击，趴下，回到教室里去。’"
“我很害怕，因为我从未经历过校园枪击，”他告诉ABC新闻。
“大家都在哭。我的老师试图保证每个人的安全，”他补充道。
父亲乔纳森·米尔斯说，当他和妻子赶到学校，等着联系他们的儿子袁晓超时，他经历了一场“情绪过山车”。
米尔斯告诉美国广播公司新闻，联系到三年级学生袁晓超，得知他没事，这是“令人兴奋的”和“压倒性的”。
警官米尔斯说，“在这个地区长大，你不会想到会发生这样的事情。”
“我有三个孩子。他们三个都去了这一群学校，你从来没有想到这一点，”他说。
温德位于亚特兰大城外45英里处。
负责人说，巴罗县的学校将在本周末关闭。
巴罗县警长贾德·史密斯称这次枪击事件是“纯粹的邪恶”
在受害者中，佐治亚州东北部卫生系统表示，三名无生命危险的枪伤患者被送往医院。它说，五名有焦虑和恐慌发作相关症状的人也来到了医院。
领导者的反应
据白宫称，总统乔·拜登和副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯听取了枪击事件的简报。
拜登在一份声明中说:“吉尔和我正在哀悼那些因更无谓的枪支暴力而缩短生命的人，并想念所有生活被永远改变的幸存者。”“全国各地的学生都在学习如何躲避，而不是如何读写。我们不能继续认为这是正常的。”
总统强调了他在打击枪支暴力方面的工作，包括签署两党安全社区法案，并成立第一个白宫枪支暴力预防办公室。但是他强调，还需要做更多的工作。
拜登说:“经过几十年的无所作为，国会的共和党人最终必须说‘够了’，并与民主党人合作，通过常识性的枪支安全立法。”“我们必须再次禁止攻击性武器和高容量弹夹，要求安全储存枪支，制定普遍的背景调查，并结束枪支制造商的豁免权。这些措施不会让那些今天惨遭杀害的人起死回生，但它将有助于防止更多悲惨的枪支暴力撕裂更多的家庭。”
哈里斯在新罕布什尔州的一次竞选活动中说:“我们的心与所有的学生、老师和他们的家人在一起。”
“这只是众多无谓悲剧中的一个无谓悲剧，”她说。“我们必须结束这种枪支暴力的流行。”
哈里斯说:“这是这次选举中利害攸关的众多问题之一。”。
“让我们最终通过攻击性武器禁令、普遍背景调查和红旗法，”她说。“说你要么赞成第二修正案，要么想把每个人的枪都拿走，这是一个错误的选择。我赞成第二修正案，我知道我们国家需要合理的枪支安全法。”
佐治亚州州长布莱恩·坎普说他“心碎了”
他在一份声明中说:“这是每个父母都害怕的一天，因为这一痛苦的事件，今晚各地的格鲁吉亚人将更紧密地拥抱他们的孩子。”“我们将继续与地方、州和联邦合作伙伴密切合作，在这极其困难的一天以及未来的日子里，提供一切可用资源来帮助这个社区。”
一位消息人士向美国广播公司新闻证实，在枪击事件发生后，坎普取消了周三晚上在拉斯维加斯共和党犹太联盟面前的计划演讲，飞回佐治亚州。
亚特兰大市长安德烈·狄更斯在一份声明中说，在亚特兰大，当局将“出于谨慎”在周三“加强学校周围的巡逻”。
狄更斯说:“我的祈祷与受无谓的暴力行为影响的高中生、员工和家庭同在。”
Officials identify victims in Georgia high school shooting, say AR platform-style weapon used
Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were the two teachers killed in the incident, officials said at a Wednesday night news briefing. They also identified the student victims.
Another nine victims -- eight students and one teacher -- were taken to hospitals with injuries following the shooting, the GBI said earlier in the day.
The suspect -- 14-year-old Colt Gray, a student at Apalachee High School -- was encountered by officers within minutes, and he immediately surrendered and was taken into custody, the GBI said. He will be charged with murder and he will be tried as an adult, the GBI said. Gray was set to be booked on Wednesday night, according to an official.
It's not clear if any of the victims were targeted, authorities said.
Chris Hosey, the director of the GBI, said at Wednesday night's briefing that an AR-platform-style weapon was used in the incident.
Emergency responders were alerted to the shooting due to teachers having a form of identification that had a type of panic button on it, a law enforcement member said at the news briefing. He added that they had only had those kinds of IDs for "about a week."
Earlier Wednesday night, the FBI confirmed on X that the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, on an alert from the organization, interviewed Wednesday's alleged shooting suspect in 2023.
"In May 2023, the FBI's National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time," the FBI post read. "Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the FBI's Atlanta Field Office referred the information to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office for action."
The agency added that the sheriff's office "located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online," the FBI said.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office "alerted" schools in the area regarding "monitoring" of the teen, and there was no probable cause for arrest, the FBI said in its post.
"To confirm, the subject referred to as the 13 year old is the same subject in custody related to today's shootings at Apalachee High School," the FBI added in a subsequent post.
Apalachee High School is in Barrow County, not far from Jackson County.
Hosey said Wednesday night that law enforcement is aware of previous contact that Family and Children Services had with the family earlier and they are investigating.
He also praised the teachers at the high school as heroes, who prevented a much larger tragedy.
Students and parents speak out
Senior Sergio Caldera, 17, said he was in chemistry class when he heard gunshots.
"My teacher goes and opens the door to see what's going on. Another teacher comes running in and tells her to close the door because there's an active shooter," Caldera told ABC News.
He said his teacher locked the door and the students ran to the back of the room. Caldera said they heard screams from outside as they "huddled up."
At some point, Caldera said someone pounded on his classroom door and shouted "open up!" multiple times. When the knocking stopped, Caldera said he heard more gunshots and screams.
He said his class later evacuated to the football field.
Kyson Stancion said he was in class when he heard gunshots and "heard police scream, telling somebody, 'There's a shooting going on, get down, get back in the classroom.'"
"I was scared because I've never been in a school shooting," he told ABC News.
"Everybody was crying. My teacher tried to keep everybody safe," he added.
Dad Jonathan Mills said he experienced an "emotional roller coaster" as he and his wife rushed to the school and waited to get ahold of their son, Jayden.
It was "exhilarating" and "overwhelming" to reach Jayden, a junior, and learn he was OK, Mills told ABC News.
Mills, a police officer, said, "Growing up in this area, you don’t expect things like that to happen."
"I have three children. All three of them go to this cluster of schools, and you never think about that," he said.
Winder is about 45 miles outside of Atlanta.
Barrow County Schools will be closed through the end of the week, the superintendent said.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith called the shooting "pure evil."
Among the victims, Northeast Georgia Health System said three people with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds were taken to its hospitals. Five people with symptoms related to anxiety and panic attacks also came to its hospitals, it said.
Leaders react
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed on the shooting, according to the White House.
"Jill and I are mourning the deaths of those whose lives were cut short due to more senseless gun violence and thinking of all of the survivors whose lives are forever changed," Biden said in a statement. "Students across the country are learning how to duck and cover instead of how to read and write. We cannot continue to accept this as normal."
The president highlighted his work to combat gun violence, including signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law and launching the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. But he stressed that more must be done.
"After decades of inaction, Republicans in Congress must finally say 'enough is enough' and work with Democrats to pass common-sense gun safety legislation," Biden said. "We must ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines once again, require safe storage of firearms, enact universal background checks, and end immunity for gun manufacturers. These measures will not bring those who were tragically killed today back, but it will help prevent more tragic gun violence from ripping more families apart."
Harris said at a campaign event in New Hampshire, "Our hearts are with all the students, the teachers and their families."
"This is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies," she said. "We have to end this epidemic of gun violence."
"This is one of the many issues that's at stake in this election," Harris said.
"Let us finally pass an assault weapons ban and universal background checks and red flag laws," she said. "It is a false choice to say you are either in favor of the Second Amendment, or you want to take everyone's guns away. I am in favor of the Second Amendment, and I know we need reasonable gun safety laws in our country."
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he is "heartbroken."
"This is a day every parent dreads, and Georgians everywhere will hug their children tighter this evening because of this painful event," he said in a statement. "We continue to work closely with local, state, and federal partners to make any and all resources available to help this community on this incredibly difficult day and in the days to come."
Kemp canceled a planned speech in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas Wednesday night to fly back to Georgia in the wake of the shooting, a source confirmed to ABC News.
In Atlanta, authorities will "bolster patrols" around schools on Wednesday "out of an abundance of caution," Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said in a statement.
"My prayers are with the high school students, staff and families affected by the senseless act of violence," Dickens said.
