After two high school students and two teachers or murder today, at least nine others were hospitalized. And what is now the 40 if it's school shooting in america? just this year alone, chilling accounts are emerging from what happened inside that school today. As we're also learning new details tonight about the 14yearold suspect who is now in custody, including how he was questioned by law enforcement about school shooting threats just last year. I'm kaitlan collins. And this is the source as i noted, we're awaiting a live update from the authorities right there in georgia. They are gathering at the microphones on what is now the deadliest school shooting in america this year law enforcement officials are expected to brief u. S. At in a moment, we're going to bring that to you live when it happens. But as we wait tonight, we are getting new details about the weapon that was used in today's mass shooting at apalachee high school in winder, georgia? that's just northeast of atlanta. A law enforcement official tells cnn the gunman used an ar 15 style rifle when he killed two students and two teachers and injured at least nine others this morning, i want to take a listen to the officials now. All right good evening as you can tell, we know that it's been a long day. I want to thank you for being patient with us today. I want to thank you for understanding that this is still an active crime scene, but from the minute that this tragic incident happened today governor kemp has been with me. I've been talking to me and several times and has been on our side and law enforcement side. And i wanted to introduce him to make a few statements again, thank you for your patience. And at this time or more introduce the governor and then director hosey will take answers and questions after that well thank sheriff. Just want to thank you and your team for the incredible work that they've done. The response of our first responders today has been unreal superintendent leduff, principle leroy, who just did an incredible job with these kids this hits home for us being for athens just down the road, marty and i have a daughter that taught firstgrade just a few years ago this is everybody's worst nightmare just want to offer my sincere condolences and our thoughts and prayers to the families of that have lost loved ones for those that are injuring and injured and continuing to fight. Through just a tragic time for really this whole community that's been affected by today's actions. And i just cannot thank the first responders enough. I cannot thank director hosey colonel hitchins, threat or stalin's at jima, the whole state response i want to thank especially as at farley and her team from the fbi fbi, that are embedded with us in the school as we speak, running down every single lead and other things that director hosey will mentioned tonight i represented bear county when i was in the state senate 20 years ago these are our neighbors. These are our friends in this community is hurting today. And i would just ask all georgians and all americans to can you continue to keep these families, these educators in these students, in your thoughts and prayers and we will provide every state resource that is needed from here until they're not to support this community and support this team behind me and with that, i'll turn it over. Director hosey thank real quick. We wanted to provide some additional updates from today's events and i will mention too that this will be our last update for the evening so i police hope you'll understand that let me start by saying that there's no evidence to report that any additional shooter was involved in this incident today. Investigators are actively pursuing. However, any leads of any potential associates of the shooter there was involved in this incident. So i say that to say we're following up any potential leads through the investigation to ensure if there were any associates involved in this that we we find them, we identify them so that's part of again, the ongoing investigation there is no evidence of a list of schools being targeted. However, there is a lot of evidence that is being recovered and evaluated we're going through everything to determine if there is any active threats to any schools in this area, this county in the state of georgia, we will continue to monitor that throughout this investigation, throughout the evening as we as we carry on there was a call. As we're aware of, to a local high school is wailed. This morning with a reported threat police responded and investigated and determined that there was no threat after all there's been reports that a colton gray, who is another student here at the school was involved or a colton great colt gray was involved in this if you recall from a previous press conference early this afternoon the individual that we've arrested and will be charged with this name is colt gray but there is another student here at the school with a very similar name. We won't ensure everyone that colton gray is not involved in this incident. That is the name that i provided you earlier this afternoon those reports were inaccurate. If that if that was passed on to you i do, however, want to identify the victims of this of this incident today. Those that lost their life in this tragic event mason shurma horn age 14, who is a student here at the school christian alkahlot, who is 14, also a student here at the school richard aspen wall not sure of his age, but he was a teacher here at the school and christina air air air murray, i'm sorry for my pronunciation. Who was also a teacher at the school. We will post a list of these victims for the correct spellings for everyone later this evening that we complete the press conference here also has been released. The fbi's national threat operations center has received received anonymous tips in the past of online threats to commit school violet or school shooting at an undetermined location in time the fbi referred this information to the decks and killed county sheriff office for action. The jackson county sheriff's office identified and located gray, who is our suspect in this case. They conducted an investigation at that time and there was no probable cause for rest or to take any additional law enforcement action this is not recent. This is in the past, but we wanted to bring that to your attention because we are pursuing that working with the fbi on that in any connection to that incident, that could be connected to today's incident as well? also we're also aware of some previous contacts that the department of family and children services in the area it had with the suspect in his family. And we are pursuing that avenue as well, too. To see if that has any connection with today's incident let me stress again as we have many times that this is still a very fluid investigation, is still very active we will have agents and there'll be law enforcement personnel that will be put pursuing investigative leads and collecting evidence throughout them night in too much of tomorrow, i would anticipate as well we again, ask for your patience and that this is a criminal investigation and we're going to treat it like that. So i apologize ahead of time if we don't answer some of the questions that you may ask, okay. Please understand i also want to want to bring note to one very special thing that we do not need to forget about here is we have, heroes in our midst we've talked about our law enforcement personnel. Are fire area mess those that are deceased are heroes in my book those that are in the hospital recovering right now, are heroes in my book. But also the heroes that we need to remember is our faculty and staff here at this school they acted admirably. They were heroes in the actions that they took. The protocols at this school in this system activated today, prevented this from being a much larger tragedy they're what we had here today. So i want to recognize them as he wrote, because they are and continue with our thoughts and prayers as has been mentioned the families that were lost here today, those who were lost here today those that are recovering in the hospital and obviously those that were affected directly by this tragedy here at the school, at all of the community of barrow county, we need to continue had them in our thoughts and prayers you're right away. Another one of these games. Can you tell us a by chance, since he's been charged as an adult important morrow would have he will be booked tonight. I'm not sure the court appears, but it will be within a reasonable amount the weapon that was used in this was an ar platform style weapon. So how did mr. Ray get the gun into this we are still investigating that aspect of it. How did the classroom get the gun come back? we heard some of that from sons were still trying to clarify a lot of the timeline him from the time that he got here to school today until the essence of two cleanse one for me. I mean, so often i know people at home, we always hear something that the fbi has heard, something about. Someone goes and does one of these tragic events how can we stop this from happening? because it feels like this happens every single time, which is school shooting that we heard that there was a prior thread was prior knowledge. What we lives are at stake, how can we stop this from happening well there's a variety of ways in my personal opinion community involvement, what our school system is doing here to ensure that whether we'd be able to stop it completely one day or not. I don't know that's those are decisions that each individual is making on their own to do this but again, i go back to what i said earlier about the he rose hear that prevented things from being a lot worse today. But we've got to take action within our own communities. Take care of each other, be aware of our surroundings and what's going on in our community the families here, they found alright our platform weapon again, that's part of a lot of the things that we're trying to clarify within the investigation there were very very early actuation wasn't from a nylon call from his balcony or staff member from a student. You just expand on nashville in minutes. Could you expand on why female faculty member walking around looking for this student minutes before he shot i'll let. Dried your hosey. Answer that question ma'am. Let's get to this question right here and then we'll come you asked how will they notified discuss today heard earlier walkers in here within seven minutes, so it was just curious how the notification went through. Did i went to her about it from a student? what was a faculty that made that call alerting law enforcement all of our teachers or armed with a form of an i. D. Costs and tj maxx it's in t6 alarms, u. S. And alerts to law enforcement office after buttons are pressed on an i. D. And it alerts us to that there is an active situation at the school for whatever reason. And that was pressed and we've had that about a week now. The reason actually pulling other students while they were in the hallway while this chaos is happening, while shooting was going on, storied boston cleaned their classmates into the classroom to give them secure, to get them to safety. What do you think that about these young folks who worked very 13, 14, 15yearsold, that they're looking out in another way is admirable. Side director hosey said, we have heroes among us. And those students and teachers that did that today saved a lot of lives. This could have been way worse than what we and again, the investigation is still trying to file through those that information, but those kids are our heroes and brave as well to do that when they hear an active shooter random talked about, let me let me get this one question right here did you have some elsewhere i was asking why no sir not looking for this kid and approached him. And why they sent a female faculty member to the house floor room. He was in with my daughter looking for him and said of the school resource officer or why allow it? to come and go from the class all the time. You sign restaurant, leave the classic, come back from time. Sometimes never come back was wondering the with with all due respect, ma'am, i think you're information is incorrect and our investigation it's going to lead to what we have and we will be glad to answer your questions once that's done for lying possibly more. Can you tell us about the sros? talk about a lot of heroes. You talked about how one of the sros founder the shooter what can you tell us about who they are? how long they've been working? and what they did today. Both of the sros that are here at these high schools at bother maha sculls, i have to they're both of the sros to include a third one was here today, not for any other reason other than to help and assist today they're the true heroes as well. They were actively looking they had an alert, i guess, if you will. And when they energetic to it or when this shooting began, they interacted with the shooter, mr. Gray, and as soon as they make contact with him, he gave up immediately. Share these officers now at this time, i'd rather not the shooter right now. He said, the shooter is in custody, the bear county detention center because he is a juvenile. He's being booked in and he will be transported to ry dc it is greater kept off right here before the shooting i'm not aware of that at this time. Sheriff for director, can you say the condition of those injured were taken to hospital, if you gotten any updates on how they're going? all of our victims that are at the hospital are going to make it and going to recover well, as we've been told, and we don't expect any more fatalities at this time. Last question at gravity to this scale incited you aware? speak to that backing expected at know what this is what what did the day is, man the students all of those affected tragic? when someone praise on kids. So tragic like i said earlier haiti is not going to prevail in our county and hates not going to prevail in our state in pure evil did what happened today. That's all i can tell you i want to continue to say that i'm proud of the men and women behind me. I'm proud of the women that stood beside me. I'm proud of the men and women who protected these kids. I'm proud of their staff. I'm proud of this community and i just asked for prayers thank you your office well, look, we've done a tremendous amount on school safety, but today is not the day for politics or policy. Today is a day for an investigation to mourn these presses, georgians that we have lost to. Thank the first responders that went into the line of fire the school staff superintendent the principal, and others that are just trying to hold this community together. That's what we need to be focused on right now. We also had a tragic loss of a firefighter in green county earlier today before this event happened with an explosion that killed the life of a first responder. That again was running in to danger when many people were trying to run out. And that's what the focus needs to be on tonight. I would ask thereby to continue to keep this community these victims and these educators and these men and women in law enforcement in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you. Thank you, governor just want to thank everyone for their patients and taking the time the cover this we ask that you continue to follow the gbi for updates. As we said earlier, we're going to continue to provide updates. It's very important that we get this information out but right now, we really want to focus on our victims and you have been listening to an update tonight from officials in georgia that was the director of the