14-year-old kills two teachers and two students at Georgia High School with assault rifle

In Georgia, a 14-year-old shot and killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in the town of Winder on Wednesday morning. It was the worst school shooting in the US this year. At least nine other people were injured. Authorities said Colt Gray, who used an “AR platform-style weapon” in Wednesday’s shooting, will be charged as an adult with murder. The student in question is 15-year-old Itzel Navarrete, who survived the shooting.

Itzel Navarrete: “All of us, including me, were crying. I was shaking. I was – I just didn’t know where my thoughts were. I was just so scared. But yeah, a lot of us were just crying. All you hear is crying. All you hear is the sirens from outside, so that scared us even more because we thought, ‘Oh, it’s real. It’s real.’ We didn’t know how to react.”

The teen suspect was on the FBI’s radar as early as May 2023, and was questioned along with his father at age 13 about anonymous online threats. His father said he kept hunting weapons in the family home. Apalachee High School reportedly received a phone threat before the shooting, with the caller warning that five schools would be targeted, starting with Apalachee. After the headlines, it’s now off to Georgia for the latest news.