At a news conference on Wednesday, September 4, police said the suspect would be charged with murder as an adult.
A news conference was held by the police to name the suspect in the school shooting on September 4 that killed four people and hurt nine others. He was identified as Colt Gray, a 14-year-old male student at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
Police say the suspect will be tried as an adult for murder.
Authorities say that two of the four people who died were students and two were teachers. All nine of the people who were hurt were shot.
Sheriff of Barrow County Jud Smith said that the police don’t know what caused the crime.
Authorities said the first calls about the shooting came in around 10:20 a.m., and the shooter was met by police within minutes. He then surrendered and was arrested.
Police have talked to the suspect, according to the officials.
As soon as the shooting happened, the school was locked down. People in the state were told to stay away from the area while officials looked into it.
That afternoon, the White House released a statement from President Joe Biden in which he said that he was “mourning the deaths” of those who died in the killing and that he was “thinking of all the survivors whose lives are forever changed.”
In a speech on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris also talked about the killing. She called the high rate of gun violence in American schools “outrageous.”