The mass shooting that claimed the lives of four people at a Georgia high school on Wednesday has created a tragic paradox for parents, a Northeastern University criminologist says.
The shooting at Apalachee High School was the deadliest school shooting this year and the ninth mass killing at a K-12 school in the U.S. since 2006, according to James Alan Fox.
Two 14-year-old students and two teachers were killed. Another eight students and one teacher were hospitalized and are expected to survive their injuries. The alleged shooter, identified as Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student at the school, was in police custody and will be charged with murder as an adult. Gray had been questioned last year about online threats to commit a school shooting but there had been no probable cause for arrest, according to FBI Atlanta and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
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