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Multiple radical were injured successful an active shooter concern astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder, Georgia, connected Wednesday morning, according to Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith.
One fishy is successful custody, the sheriff's bureau said.
Details connected the fig of victims and their conditions were not instantly clear, the sheriff's bureau said.
Students are seen extracurricular Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Sept. 4, 2024.
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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."
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.
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.
President Joe Biden has been briefed connected the shooting. "His medication volition proceed coordinating with federal, state, and section officials arsenic we person much information," according to the White House.
Agents from the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are astatine the scene.
Police are seen extracurricular Apalachee High School successful Winder, Ga., connected Sept. 4, 2024.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he's "directed each disposable authorities resources to respond."
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.
"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.
This is simply a processing story. Please cheque backmost for updates.
ABC News' Josh Margolin and Miles Cohen contributed to this report.
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