A chilling video has surfaced showing high school students being led out a hallway where police said a 21-year-old gunman used an AK-47 style weapon to fatally shoot four people at Apalachee High School.
The students walk past a discarded assault rifle and what appears to be a covered body under white sheet.
On the floor they believe was 14-year-old Colt Gray’s black AR-15-style rifle, with a magazine still attached and another firearm on the ground nearby.
The AR-style weapon was used in the shooting at 7 a.m. Wednesday, authorities confirmed, but it remains unclear who manufactured or sold the gun. The manufacturer claims that a non-modified magazine-fed gas-operated semi-automatic AR-15 fires at a rate of 45 rounds per minute.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested Gray, who surrendered to officers at the scene.
Moments before the shooting happened, a sophomore at Apalachee depicted his story about how he escaped by not much.
“I was going to go to the bathroom right before it happened. And I’m so glad I didn’t because I’d probably be dead right now if I did,” the 10th grader told the outlet, which did not name him.
A few seconds later, he heard gunshots in the area.
“I heard gunshots, and then my teacher told us to get in the corner. I heard screaming and police officers like, ‘Get down!’” he said of the terrifying scene.
Last year the FBI reportedly investigated Gray in response to online threats by him for a school shooting. His father told investigators taking hunting rifles into their home would not allow his son access to them unsupervised.
The reason for the Wednesday attack has yet to be established.
