Fight In Restroom Leads To Student Being Shot At Georgia High School

A shooting astatine a Georgia precocious schoolhouse connected Wednesday near 1 student injured, while a teenage fishy who fled nan segment was later taken into custody, constabulary said.

The shooting astatine Warner Robins High School progressive 2 ninth-grade students and occurred conscionable 1 week into nan caller schoolhouse year, prompting a consequence from dozens of rule enforcement officers. Warner Robins is astir 102 miles (164 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta.

“Today a telephone that we train for each twelvemonth happened to Houston County,” Sheriff Matt Moulton said astatine an evening news conference.

The injured student was taken to infirmary pinch non-life-threatening injuries. Moulton did not supply further specifications astir nan quality of nan injuries.

According to nan Houston County School District, nan precocious schoolhouse was placed nether a codification reddish lockdown, pinch students and unit secured wrong their classrooms. It wasn’t instantly known whether nan schoolhouse had metallic detectors successful place.

Moulton declined to return questions astatine nan news conference, citing nan progressive investigation.

The sheriff said a group of students was wrong a schoolhouse bath erstwhile a verbal altercation betwixt 2 students escalated into a beingness fight. One student was changeable astatine 2:15 p.m., and nan fishy fled. A schoolhouse assets serviceman arrived quickly, applied tourniquets to nan student’s injuries and remained until emergency services unit arrived.

Authorities said nan fishy fled nan schoolhouse successful an chartless direction. After reviewing surveillance footage, officers located and arrested nan fishy an hr later successful nan Huntington Hills neighborhood, crossed nan thoroughfare from nan school.

“The schoolhouse threat protocol and our training was followed perfectly today," Moulton said. "Fortunately what could person been a much-worse incident was minimized to america only having 1 student injured.”

The schoolhouse principal, Brett Wallace, said nan schoolhouse would beryllium closed to students connected Thursday and Friday and to unit connected Thursday. Crisis counselors would beryllium disposable astatine nan schoolhouse for unit connected Friday and for students connected Monday erstwhile they return.

He added that location would beryllium nary virtual learning for nan students.

“We want our students to person nan opportunity to beryllium astatine home, surrounded by family, and to return nan clip they request to process, heal, and attraction for 1 another,” Wallace said successful a statement.