Georgia Teachers Pressed New Panic Buttons During Shooting, Alerting Police

Georgia Teachers Pressed New Panic Buttons During Shooting, Alerting Police
Flowers at the Apalachee High School sign the day after a fatal shooting left four dead in Winder, Ga., on Sept. 5, 2024. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)
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Teachers at the Georgia high school, where a shooter killed four people on Wednesday, pressed wearable panic buttons—in use just one week—to alert law enforcement officers that they were in danger.

Responding officers could potentially pinpoint the location of the person who had pushed the panic button on maps on their mobile phones of the large Apalachee High School campus located around 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. The suspect in the shooting, a 14-year-old student at the high school, faces four counts of murder and will be tried as an adult.