Four people were killed in a shooting at a Georgia high school in the United States on Wednesday (Sept 4), just weeks after classes began, and a 14-year-old suspect was taken into custody, law enforcement officials said.
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00:00At least four people were killed and nine others were being treated for injuries after
00:06a shooting at a high school in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday.
00:09Of those that are deceased, two were students and two were teachers.
00:15Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said a 14-year-old student
00:20at the school is in custody.
00:22He will be charged with murder, and he will be tried as an adult.
00:26One student had texted his mother,
00:33On a road close to the school, parents waited anxiously for students to be released.
00:39Michelle and J.R. Watson have a granddaughter at the school, located some 50 miles northeast
00:44of Atlanta, and said it was a terrifying ordeal.
00:56We called her before we got word that she was OK.
01:01It was very terrifying.
01:04We just came back from a long weekend vacation with the whole family.
01:09To come back to this, the first day back, just...
01:13Just terrible.
01:14Just hard to grasp.
01:15Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Vice President Kamala Harris called for an
01:20end to the epidemic of gun violence in America.
01:23This is just a senseless tragedy.
01:25On top of so many senseless tragedies.
01:27Our kids are sitting in a classroom where they should be fulfilling their God-given
01:34potential, and some part of their big, beautiful brain is concerned about a shooter busting
01:41through the door of the classroom.
01:44It does not have to be this way.
01:48The shooting was the first of the new school year in the United States, and served as a
01:53stark reminder to students, teachers, and parents of the threat of gun violence in schools
01:58across the nation.