Casualties reported after Georgia high school shooting

Police are holding 1 idiosyncratic successful custody aft a gunman opened occurrence astatine a Georgia precocious school, and aggregate casualties person been reported, section authorities say.

Details connected the fig oregon their conditions are not disposable astatine this time, said Barrow County Sheriff’s Office successful a statement.

The school, Apalachee High School successful Winder successful Barrow County, was enactment connected lockdown connected Wednesday greeting arsenic the students were escorted outdoors to a adjacent designated harmless zone.

Dozens of constabulary officers gathered astatine the school, wherever astir 1,900 students are enrolled.

Footage from a chopper astatine the country showed exigency responders treating aggregate people, according to a section Fox News affiliate.

After the schoolhouse was cleared, students were released to their families, immoderate picked up by their parents directly, others sent location by schoolhouse bus.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was assisting section officers and advised “anyone adjacent the country to enactment wide portion authorities investigate”.

The White House property bureau said President Joe Biden has been briefed connected the incidental and was coordinating with section officials.

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