14-Year-Old Shoots Four Dead In School

Four people, including two students and two teachers, have been killed by a 14-year-old boy who opened fire at a high school in the US state of Georgia on Wednesday, law enforcement said.

The incident also left nine people wounded.

The suspected shooter — also a student at the school — had been brought to the FBI’s attention more than a year ago for threats to commit a school shooting, the agency said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed the arrest of the boy, adding that he will be tried as an adult on a murder charge.

“Our school resource officer engaged him,” county sheriff Jud Smith told reporters, referring to law enforcement officers employed to work at US schools.

“The shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up that it would end with an OIS — an officer-involved shooting. He gave up, got on the ground, and the deputy took him into custody.”

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Smith said police did not yet know if the shooter singled out specific people as targets, adding later that the nine wounded were expected to recover.

The two students killed were also 14 years old, authorities said