Apalachee High School shooting victim taken to Grady Hospital | FOX 5 News

KIDS PROCESS THIS AND MOVE FORWARD. OUR AUNGELIQUE PROCTOR WAS ONE OF THE WAS AT GRADY HOSPITAL THE MINUTE WE LEARNED ONE OF THE PATIENTS WAS TAKEN THERE. WE WANT TO GO BACK OUT TO HER LIVE, AND GET A SENSE OF WHAT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN HAPPENING THERE FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW, AUNGELIQUE GRADY IS A LEVEL ONE TRAUMA CENTER. NO SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT ONE OF THE VICTIMS WAS TAKEN HERE. ABSOLUTELY. CHRISTINE, WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE COMINGS AND GOINGS HERE AT GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ALL DAY LONG, AND AS YOU SAID, WITH IT BEING THE PREMIER TRAUMA CENTER IN THE METRO AREA, ONE WOULD EXPECT IF YOU ARE SEVERELY INJURED, THIS IS THE PLACE TO COME AND GRADY OFFICIALS CONFIRMED FOR US, THEY DO HAVE ONE GUNSHOT VICTIM HERE. IT WAS ABOUT 1135 THIS MORNING WHEN I ACTUALLY HEARD THE CHOPPER COMING IN TO LAND. WITH NO DOUBT, THAT PERSON I'VE TALKED TO, NOT ONE, BUT TWO GRADY EMPLOYEES WHO SAID THEY SAW THE CHOPPER COME IN AT AROUND THE SAME TIME, AND THEY SAID THE CHOPPER CAME IN VERY, VERY QUICKLY. AND SO WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE SITUATION SINCE THEN. AROUND 1:00 TODAY, WE SAW GBI AGENTS WHO CAME HERE TO GRADY IN TWO DIFFERENT VEHICLES. THEY WENT RIGHT INTO THE HOSPITAL VERY QUICKLY AND PRESUMED MOVING FORWARD WITH THEIR WORK. THEY WERE HERE FOR SOME TWO HOURS. THEY JUST LEFT ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO. THEY HAD NO COMMENT AS TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING, ONLY TO SAY THAT THEIR BUSINESS HERE WAS IN FACT CONNECTED TO THE APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING IN WINDER. SO WE DID SEE THAT HAPPEN TODAY, THIS HAS BEEN A VERY UNFORTUNATE SITUATION. LOTS OF PEOPLE STOPPING US ASKING US, ARE YOU ALL HERE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL SHOOTING AND LOTS OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, JUST VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN THIS COUNTRY, WHERE ALL OF THESE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS JUST BECOME A NORMAL EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. BUT THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING, THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO GRADY OFFICIALS, TRYING TO GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PATIENT HERE, WHETHER IT IS A MALE OR A FEMALE. THEY WILL NOT CONFIRM THAT AT THIS TIME. WE'VE ALSO BEEN ASKING ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE PATIENT. NO CONFIRMATION THERE AS WELL. THEY HAVE REFERRED US TO LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ANY UPDATES. WE'RE ALSO, OF COURSE, LOOKING FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE PERSON WHO WAS INJURED. WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY BARROW COUNTY TAGS

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