This is just a jarring image in Winder, Georgia today. This is just east of Atlanta. You see their students in a prayer circle outside Appalachian High School.

This is moments after a mass shooting in their school.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper.

The breaking news today is that four people were killed and nine others were taken to local hospitals according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.

We are currently standing by for a news conference set to begin any moment now.

Authorities say that a suspect in this mass shooting is in custody.

He is described as a 14 year old male according to law enforcement sources.

I want you to take a moment to listen to one of the students describing the moment

she realized something had gone horribly wrong.

I heard screaming and everything at first I thought it was like someone just like

playing around in the hallways or something I thought it was like someone just yelling or something.

So I didn't think much of it, but then like it got harder. The noise kept getting louder and louder.

And I was like no guys like I told everybody to get down, get down because this like you don't joke around with that you know

Let's go right to CNN's Ryan Young who's on the ground in Winder, Georgia for us Ryan

Tell us what are people there telling you about what

happened? Jake, they're afraid, they're angry, they're still trying to process

exactly what's been going on. You heard in that sound just a second ago, how so many

students did not believe at first this was an actual shooting. Even right now

there's a stream of parents and students still trying to make their way back

to their cars.

Some people walked several miles to be able to pick up their students and I can tell you they are

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