WINDER, Georgia (Aiexpress)— A 14-year-old student was caught on Wednesday for bringing a gun to Apalachee High School in Georgia. This is the same high school where two teachers, two students, and other people were hurt in a shooting in September.
A spokesman for the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said that the boy was taken “without incident” on Wednesday afternoon at his school in Winder, which is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. It was reported that the student did not threaten anyone with a gun, and deputies said that the student was “cooperative and compliant” when they met them.
The child, who was not named because he was too young, was taken to a Gainesville juvenile holding center. Two counts of having a gun on school grounds, theft, and being a child with a gun are all charges against him. The police didn’t say what kind of gun was taken away. The student was arrested at school just after 2 p.m., but the authorities did not say when he came or give any other information about the arrest.
The high school, which is about 45 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta and has about 2,000 students, had no classes on Thursday because of bad weather in Barrow County.
Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, were teachers who died in the shooting on September 4. Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, were students. Seven of the kids and another teacher who was hurt were hit by gunfire.
Although he was only 14 years old at the time, Colt Gray was charged as an adult after the shooting in September. He was given 55 counts, including murder and 25 counts of aggravated attack at the high school. He said he wasn’t guilty. Colin Gray, the boy’s father, was charged with 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say that Colin Gray let his son get guns and ammunition “after receiving sufficient warning” that the boy would hurt other people. Colin Gray has also said he is not guilty.
Parents were told by the district that no one should come to school on Thursday and that all extracurricular events on campus had been canceled. It was also decided that there would not be an open house to see the new portable classrooms that were set up on campus to replace the classrooms that were in the hallway where the killing happened, which is now closed off.
Some students, teachers, and parents went to a Barrow County school board meeting on Tuesday to demand that the district take more obvious steps to improve security at Apalachee. This led to the arrest on Wednesday. They suggested adding even more school police officers, making backpacks see-through, and purchasing a computerized camera system that the maker says can find guns using AI.
At the meeting, Superintendent Dallas LeDuff said that the district would present the results of a security poll later this month. He also said that he had met with school resource officers to talk about what safety measures they think should be taken.
LeDuff said, “It has been a very planned process.” “I feel good about the work our staff has done.”
