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    Harrowing audio reveals frantic calls to 911 moments after Apalachee High School shooting that left four dead

    By Ellie Doughty,

    12 days ago

    POLICE in Georgia have revealed chilling audio from the 911 calls made moments after a shooter opened fire at Apalachee High School.

    One of the cops captured on the recording can be heard shouting out "Active shooter!" as another calls in paramedics.

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    Colt Gray, the 14-year-old charged with murder after allegedly killing four at his high school
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    A medical helicopter is seen in front of Apalachee High School Credit: AP
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    Students wait to be picked up by their parents after the shooting Credit: Getty
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    epa11594943 Mourners pay their respects at the large makeshift memorial in front of Apalachee High School, days after a shooting left two students and two teachers dead in Winder, Georgia, USA, 09 September 2024. A 14-year-old student suspect and his father have been charged in the 05 September shooting. Classes have not resumed at the […] Credit: EPA

    And one worried dad calls officials after hearing from his daughter, the school psychologist, hiding in a trailer with a student.

    He tells the dispatcher: "My daughter just called, she’s in a trailer," as chaos unfolded on September 4.

    "She’s trying to hide behind a desk with the kid that she has in there with her... but she’s upset because she can’t get the door locked."

    One woman calls in to say: "My daughter calling me crying. Somebody go ‘boom, boom, boom, boom'."

    The dispatcher tells her: "Ma'am we have officers out there, OK?".

    In one recording clip the dispatcher asks for confirmation of the situation on the ground and an officer says "Correct. We have an active shooter at Apalachee High School."

    Later on one is heard out of breath as he confirms the suspect is in custody and says "Roll EMS", referring the emergency medical services.

    Colt Gray, 14, was arrested and charged with four counts of felony murder after allegedly carrying out Georgia's deadliest school shooting that killed four and injured nine.

    Students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, Christian Angulo, 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were identified as those killed.

    His dad Colin Gray, 54, was also arrested and charged after admitting to gifting his son the rifle that was allegedly used in the attack.

    He was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

    Gray and his dad were interviewed by the FBI a year before the shooting when authorities received online threats of a possible attack.

    His mum Marcee, 43, has insisted that she tried to warn the school before the shooting.

    She received a text from him that read "I'm sorry, Mom", while she was visiting her dad three hours away from the school.

    Marcee said she rang the school to warm them of an "extreme emergency", the Washington Post reports.

    "I told them it was an extreme emergency and for them to go immediately and find [my son] to check on him," she said.

    Gray is set to be tried as an adult but officials have said is not eligible for the death penalty if found guilty.

    Timeline of Apalachee High School shooting

    Below is a timeline of the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4:

    8:30 am - First period begins at AHS

    9:45 am - Suspect Colt Gray leaves algebra class, according to his classmate

    10:20 am - Police start to receive calls about an active shooter

    10:23 am - Law enforcement officers are dispatched to school and arrive in minutes

    10:45 am - AHS sends message to parents saying the school is in a hard lockdown

    11:20 am - Students are evacuated to the football field

    11:56 am - Barrow County Sheriff’s Office reports a suspect is in custody

    2:13 pm - Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirms four people were killed and nine were hospitalized with injuries

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    Marcee Gray, Colt Gray's mother, smiling in a mugshot taken before the shooting
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    Colin Gray in court Credit: Getty
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    Guest
    5d ago
    they need I law and every state and United States if you kill you be killed by gas chamber by electric chair or public hanging you should live if you kill
    Katheryne Cook
    12d ago
    Fourteen years old... Fourteen. Can't get a driver's license. Can't join the Army. Can't even vote. But he can murder four innocent people and wound several others. When does it end?
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