LIVE | 4 dead in shooting at Georgia high school, student suspect in custody: Officials

Four radical were killed successful a shooting astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder, Georgia, connected Wednesday morning, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Another 9 victims were taken to hospitals with injuries, the GBI said.

The fishy is live and successful custody, the GBI said. The fishy is believed to beryllium a pupil astatine Apalachee High School, according to sources.

Senior Sergio Caldera, 17, said helium was successful chemistry people erstwhile helium heard gunshots.

"My teacher goes and opens the doorway to spot what's going on. Another teacher comes moving successful and tells her to adjacent the doorway due to the fact that there's an progressive shooter," Caldera told ABC News.

He said his teacher locked the doorway and the students ran to the backmost of the room. Caldera said they heard screams from extracurricular arsenic they "huddled up."

Students are seen extracurricular Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Sept. 4, 2024.

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At immoderate point, Caldera said idiosyncratic pounded connected his schoolroom doorway and shouted "open up!" aggregate times. When the knocking stopped, Caldera said helium heard much gunshots and screams.

He said his people aboriginal evacuated to the shot field.

Kyson Stancion said helium was successful people erstwhile helium heard gunshots and "heard constabulary scream, telling somebody, 'There's a shooting going on, get down, get backmost successful the classroom.'"

"I was frightened due to the fact that I've ne'er been successful a schoolhouse shooting," helium told ABC News.

"Everybody was crying. My teacher tried to support everybody safe," helium added.

Police are seen extracurricular Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Sept. 4, 2024.

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Apalachee High School was "cleared for dismissal" and each different Barrow County Schools are connected a "soft lockdown," the Barrow County School District said.

"The Barrow County Sheriff's Office says this is for the information of everyone close now. Please bash not sojourn your child's schoolhouse astatine this time. We cannot merchandise students during a lockdown," the schoolhouse territory said successful a statement. "We volition fto you cognize arsenic soon arsenic BCSO says it is each wide for dismissal."

Winder is astir 45 miles extracurricular of Atlanta. The schoolhouse enrolls astir 1,900 students.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed connected the shooting, according to the White House.

"Jill and I are mourning the deaths of those whose lives were chopped abbreviated owed to much senseless weapon unit and reasoning of each of the survivors whose lives are everlastingly changed," Biden said successful a statement. "Students crossed the state are learning however to duck and screen alternatively of however to work and write. We cannot proceed to judge this arsenic normal."

The president highlighted his enactment to combat weapon violence, including signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into instrumentality and launching the archetypal White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. But helium stressed that much indispensable beryllium done.

"After decades of inaction, Republicans successful Congress indispensable yet accidental 'enough is enough' and enactment with Democrats to walk common-sense weapon information legislation," Biden said. "We indispensable prohibition battle weapons and high-capacity magazines erstwhile again, necessitate harmless retention of firearms, enact cosmopolitan inheritance checks, and extremity immunity for weapon manufacturers. These measures volition not bring those who were tragically killed contiguous back, but it volition assistance forestall much tragic weapon unit from ripping much families apart."

Attorney General Merrick Garland said, "I'm devastated for the families who person been affected by this unspeakable tragedy. The Justice Department stands acceptable to supply immoderate resources oregon support."

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he's "praying for the information of those successful our classrooms, some successful Barrow County and crossed the state."

In Atlanta, authorities volition "bolster patrols" astir schools connected Wednesday "out of an abundance of caution," Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said successful a statement.

Police are seen extracurricular Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Sept. 4, 2024.

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"My prayers are with the precocious schoolhouse students, unit and families affected by the senseless enactment of unit successful Winder," Dickens said.

So acold successful 2024 determination person been 385 wide shootings arsenic of September 4, including this latest 1 successful Georgia, according to the ABC News information team.

This is Georgia's 16th wide shooting truthful acold this year.

This clip past twelvemonth determination were 485 wide shootings.

The Gun Violence Archive, which defines a wide shooting arsenic 1 with 4 oregon much radical injured oregon killed - not including the perpetrator - counted 656 Mass Shootings successful 2023, 646 successful 2022, 689 successful 2021 and 610 successful 2020.

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ABC News' Josh Margolin and Miles Cohen contributed to this report.