appalachian high school shooting suspect 2024 09

Chris hosy director of the Georgia buau investigation and we wanted to come back uh this afternoon and present you with a little more of a timeline of the events that have taken place here today and and what we know up to this point with the investigation at approximately 10:20 a.m. this morning the bar County Sheriff's Office uh received alerts about reports of an active shooter and radio traffic from school resource officers concerning the same concern or having the same concern within minutes law enforcement was on scene as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school who immediately encountered the subject within just minutes of this report going out once they encountered the subject the subject immediately surrendered to these officers and he was taken into custody additionally what I want you to know as of now there are four uh individual ual who are deceased from this incident nine that have been taken to local hospitals with various injuries uh of those that were have are deceased two were students and two were teachers here at the at the school the priority right now for us within this investigation is to gather all the facts to make sure that we're accurate with it because this is a murder investigation as the sheriff mentioned earlier this morning the shooter is in custody his name is Colt that's c t gray he is a 14-year-old student here at the school g y he is a 14-year-old student here at the high school again he has been taken into custody uh he is he will be charged with murder and he will be tried as an adult and uh handled as an adult we are coordinating these charges and obviously this investigation with District attorney Brad Smith who is the district attorney for the pedmont judicial C uh circuit here since early this morning we talk we and since the incident occurred numerous interviews have been taking place through our investigation with students faculty uh as well as any other witnesses that we could identify law enforcement had a very very Swift response to this incident once the the incident was was determined that there was a concern here those resources whether it was in that response or throughout this investigation to assist came obviously from the sheriff's office here from uh other local law enforcement agencies state law enforcement agencies and the uh federal law enforcement agencies as well uh to include not to be left out multiple EMS Personnel multiple fire Personnel uh and agencies those agencies responded here as well today and I am extremely grateful as I know the sheriff is for that quick response and the Partnerships of working here together uh with what all is going on currently from the investigative perspective we have crime scene agents and and other special agents from the gbi from close to a dozen of our different uh work units from across the state uh that have responded here today to work on this investigation again collecting evidence conducting interviews and so forth I do want want to pass this along uh that if anyone has any information uh that wants to be passed on concerning this investigation that they can do that Anon anonymously at our tip line at 1 1800 597 tips or 1 800 597 8477 they can also report this on uh by downloading the see something send something app that can be done by Android or Apple phones either one uh to if they need to report any uh any uh tips concerning this investigation uh let me close out before I turn this over to the sheriff and and let you just remind you that this is still a very active investigation there is still a lot that is very fluid uh there's still a lot of interviews to be conducted uh that will continue on into the night as well as as crime scen work and collecting and and Gathering evidence but what more is more important for me to mention here to you is is my heartfelt uh sympathy to uh the parents the students that were that were here today uh regardless of of where they were in the school this has got a great impact uh on them as well as on this community uh my thoughts and prayers along with everybody standing be me and every law enforcement agency in this state and many I will I will tell you around this country uh they are in our thoughts and prayers and we will continue with that uh we ask for your patience uh as we continue through this and we'll continue to try to give you as many updates with information as we can to keep you informed uh but thank