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Students mourn 4 killed in Georgia school shooting as investigators explore past threats

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Georgia is mourning the lives of the four people killed in a high school shooting Wednesday. Reports of the 14-year-old suspect's past run-ins with law enforcement raised even more questions about his motive, how he accessed a gun and how potential warning signs went unaddressed. Geoff Bennett reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Welcome to the news hour. Georgia is mourning the lives of four people killed in a high school

0:06.0

shooting yesterday. Nine others were injured.

0:08.8

Today reports of the 14 year old suspects passed run-ins with law enforcement raised even more questions

0:15.6

about his motive, how he got access to a gun, and how potential warning signs went

0:20.7

unaddressed. At Appalach Appalachian High School, some students returned today to

0:26.2

grieve at a makeshift memorial. A quiet morning after yesterday's tragedy.

0:31.4

Bless us and walk with us each day as we go forward.

0:37.0

The community gathered for a vigil last night,

0:40.0

after a 14-year-old student opened fire outside his algebra classroom. Four people, two students

0:46.2

and two teachers were killed. Those who survived still processing what they'd witnessed

0:51.2

hours earlier. You can hear gunshots, just ringing out through the school,

0:55.0

and you're just wondering which one of those

0:57.0

is going to be somebody that you're like best friends with or somebody that you love.

1:01.0

I still don't believe this is real. Like, I knew a girl that got love. I still don't believe this is real. Like I knew a girl that got shot in

1:05.2

her leg and it really broke me because she was like a sister to me and I don't know

1:11.1

how to react to. Students recounted ducking for cover in their classrooms as gunshots rang through the hallway.

1:20.0

Within minutes, officials say the shooter surrendered to school resource officers.

1:26.0

Questions remain about how the teenage gunman obtained an assault-style rifle.

1:31.0

As more information emerges about his past encounters with law enforcement.

1:36.4

In May 2023, the FBI traced online posts from an individual threatening to shoot up a middle

1:41.8

school according to multiple news reports. individual threatening to shoot up a middle school,

1:42.6

according to multiple news reports.

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