Text message exchanges between an Apalachee High School student and his mother offered a frightening glimpse into the panic that erupted Wednesday morning when a gunman believed to be a 14-year-old opened fire, killing at least four people and wounding 30 others.
“School shooting incident [right now]”… I'm scared. Please. This is not a joke,” the student wrote in a series of messages to his mother at 10:23 a.m., minutes after students learned there was a shooter on school grounds in north Georgia.
“I'm coming home from work,” her mother replied.
“I love you,” the unidentified student wrote.
Then the conversation took a scary turn.
“I love you too. Where are you?” her mother asked.
“Class. Someone's died.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the shooter was in custody but it was not immediately clear if he attended the high school, about 45 minutes outside Atlanta.
