Two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School was shot and killed and nine other people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds Wednesday. The deadly Sept. 4 incident was the 218th time a gun has been fired or brandished at a school so far in 2024, the data show.
The suspected shooter — a 14-year-old student at the north Georgia school — was arrested and charged with murder. Authorities said he would be tried as an adult.
A CBS News analysis of data from K-12 Shooting Database shows that of the more than 200 incidents on Sept. 4 — which include gang violence, domestic incidents and accidents, among other causes — 10 were in Georgia, including Wednesday’s incident.
And, like the majority — nearly 51% — of school shootings over the past 10 years, the fatal incident in north Georgia occurred during the school day, while classes were in session. The 2022 shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary Schooloccurred, for example, when school was in session.
The rest occur after school, mostly during extracurricular activities such as sports or school events, such as a 2023 shooting at a high school football game in New Jersey where a 10-year-old was killed. School shootings that happen inside the school building tend to be more deadly, data shows.
So far in 2024, 18 of the 46 people killed in school shootings were under the age of 18, not including the two students and two teachers in the Sept. 4 incident.
After the 2012 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado—at the time, the nation’s deadliest shooting—many states began requiring active shooter drills, reaching 95% of public schools in the 2015-2016 school year. CBS News previously reported.