A 14-year-old student opened fire yesterday at a high school in the state Georgia and killed four people, authorities said, cited by AP and BTA.
Two students and two teachers died, and at least nine other people were taken to hospitals with injuries.
Authorities said the suspect, a student at Appalachian High School, in the town of Winder, about an hour's drive from Atlanta, was taken into custody and charged with murder as an adult.
"What you are seeing is a crime," said Barrow County Sheriff Judd Smith at a brief news conference outside the school. He declined to provide details about the suspect. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported that four people were killed and at least nine were injured.
The school shooting is just one of dozens across the US in recent years, including particularly deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and Yuvaldi, Texas. The classroom killings have sparked heated debates over gun control and strained the nerves of parents whose children are growing up accustomed to active shooter drills in classrooms. However, they did little to change the nation's gun laws.