The four people killed in a school shooting in Georgia have been identified.
Two students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, were killed in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder on Sept. 4, authorities said.
Both students were 14 years old
Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, who were teachers at the school, were also killed, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
At least nine other people were wounded in the attack, which officials say was carried out by a 14-year-old student named Colt Gray. He has been arrested and taken into custody.
All of the injured, who were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, are going to make it, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters in a briefing, citing hospital staffers. “We don’t expect any more fatalities,” he said.
“Those that are deceased are heroes in my book,” Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told the briefing. “Those that are in the hospital recovering right now are heroes in my book.”
President Joe Biden said in a statement that he and First Lady Jill Biden 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.”
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said on Truth Social that “these cherished children were taken from us far too soon by a sick and deranged monster.”
Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, “It’s just outrageous that every day, in our country, in the United States of America, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive.”
Apalachee High School, which opened in 2000, has about 1,900 students, according to records from Georgia education officials.
Colt entered the school in the morning and started opening fire, authorities said. Two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out, according to Hosey.
