“What you see behind us is an evil thing,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said at a brief news conference outside the school.
A shooter at a Georgia high school killed four people on Wednesday , authorities said, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms — and eventually to the football stadium — as officers swarmed the campus and parents raced to find out if their children were safe.
The school shooting was just the latest among dozens across the US. in recent years, including especially deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas. Prior to Wednesday’s shooting, there had been 29 mass killings in the US so far this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.At least 127 people have died in those killings, which are defined as incidents in which four or more people die within a 24-hour period, not including the killer — the same definition used by the FBI.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement: “This is a day every parent dreads, and Georgians everywhere will hug their children tighter this evening because of this painful event.”
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