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(NewsNation) — As an probe continues into the school shooting that killed 4 people and 9 much connected Wednesday successful Georgia, students astatine Apalachee High School expressed fearfulness arsenic they heard gunshots successful the hallway extracurricular of classrooms.
Officials person confirmed the 4 deaths and 9 injuries and are expected to supply much details astir the incidental but students wrong the gathering astatine the clip of the shooting told NewsNation that they feared for their lives.
Cameron LeRoy, a 15-year-old pupil astatine the school, told NewsNation that helium heard shots successful the hallway soon aft 10:30 a.m. He said that his teacher past moved a whiteboard successful beforehand of the door.
At that moment, LeRoy told NewsNation helium feared helium would die.
“I was scared, but I’m bully now,” LeRoy told NewsNation. “You ne'er deliberation that’s going to hap to you until it does. And past you’re conscionable scared. You don’t cognize what to do.”
Police person confirmed that 1 suspect, Colt Gray, 14, is successful custody. Investigators said Gray volition beryllium treated arsenic an big and volition beryllium charged with murder. They besides said the deceased included 2 students and 2 teachers.
Winder is located astir an hr northeast of Atlanta and is described arsenic a quiescent suburban country wherever the lone gunfire that is heard for people practice, residents of the assemblage told NewsNation connected Wednesday.
Students who declined to look connected camera with NewsNation said they were shaken by the schoolhouse shooting, which was reported conscionable aft 10:30 a.m. arsenic a study of an progressive shooter.
