WEBVTT 00:01.200 --> 00:02.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% AMNA NAWAZ: Welcome to the "News Hour." 00:02.766 --> 00:05.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Georgia is mourning the lives of four people killed in a high 00:05.300 --> 00:08.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% school shooting yesterday. Nine others were injured. 00:08.366 --> 00:12.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% GEOFF BENNETT: Today, reports of the 14-year-old suspect's past run-ins 00:12.066 --> 00:16.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with law enforcement raised even more questions about his motive, 00:16.000 --> 00:21.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% how he got access to a gun and how potential warning signs went unaddressed. 00:22.666 --> 00:26.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% At Apalachee High School, some students returned today to grieve 00:26.033 --> 00:31.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% at a makeshift memorial, a quiet morning after yesterday's tragedy. 00:32.533 --> 00:36.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% MAN: Bless us and walk with us each day as we go forward. 00:38.833 --> 00:41.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GEOFF BENNETT: The community gathered for a vigil last night after a 14-year-old student opened fire 00:43.566 --> 00:46.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% outside his algebra classroom. Four people, two students and two teachers, were killed. 00:48.400 --> 00:52.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% Those who survived still processing what they'd witnessed hours earlier. 00:52.066 --> 00:55.100 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% LANDON CULVER, Student: You could hear gunshots just ringing out through the school. And, like, 00:55.100 --> 00:57.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% you're just wondering which one of those is going to be somebody 00:57.633 --> 00:59.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that you're like best friends with or somebody that you love. 00:59.933 --> 01:03.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% GURAY CHAPMAN, Student: I still don't believe this is real. Like, 01:03.200 --> 01:07.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I knew a girl that got shot in her leg, and it really broke me, 01:07.500 --> 01:12.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% because she was like a sister to me. And I don't know how to react to it. 01:15.100 --> 01:19.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% GEOFF BENNETT: Students recounted ducking for cover in their classrooms as gunshots rang through 01:19.433 --> 01:24.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% the hallway. Within minutes, officials say, the shooter surrendered to school resource officers. 01:26.433 --> 01:31.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Questions remain about how the teenage gunman obtained an assault-style rifle, as 01:33.233 --> 01:36.100 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% more information emerges about his past encounters with law enforcement. In May 2023, the FBI traced 01:38.200 --> 01:43.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% online posts from an individual threatening to shoot up a middle school, according to multiple 01:43.033 --> 01:48.000 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% news reports. That led authorities to the youth, who was then 13. He denied making those comments. 01:49.966 --> 01:54.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% His father insisted his son did not have access to hunting guns kept inside their 01:54.433 --> 01:59.400 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% house. Authorities alerted nearby schools to monitor him, but he was not arrested or further 02:01.766 --> 02:05.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% detained. In a home search yesterday, according to The New York Times, police found evidence 02:07.300 --> 02:10.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that the gunman was -- quote -- "obsessed" with the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. 02:13.066 --> 02:16.600 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% He's set to appear in court virtually tomorrow. Among his victims, two 14-year-old students, 02:18.833 --> 02:22.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% Mason Schermerhorn, whose family described him as a lighthearted teen and a lover of Disney World, 02:24.333 --> 02:28.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% Christian Angulo, whose friends called him a free spirit with a chill attitude, 02:28.466 --> 02:32.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and two faculty members, 53-year-old Christina Irimie, 02:32.400 --> 02:37.400 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% a devoted math teacher described as patient and caring, and 39-year-old Richard Aspinwall. He 02:39.266 --> 02:43.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% also taught math and coached football as the team's defensive coordinator. 02:43.133 --> 02:48.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% ISAIAH HOOKS, Student: Coach was an amazing guy. He pushed us to be great at what we 02:50.300 --> 02:55.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% did for our team. So it was really hard to lose someone that pushed himself to really 03:00.133 --> 03:04.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% make us better and to make sure that we're better at what we do. 03:04.366 --> 03:07.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GEOFF BENNETT: Apalachee joins a long list of American schools 03:07.066 --> 03:09.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that now bear the scars of gun violence. 03:09.500 --> 03:12.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it's the 30th mass killing of 2024, 03:12.833 --> 03:17.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in which four or more people are murdered in a 24-hour period, as defined by the FBI. 03:19.700 --> 03:23.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Such incidents have claimed at least 127 American lives this year alone.