Christian Angulo, Christina Irimie, Richard Aspinwall and Mason Schermerhorn were identified as the victims who died in the shooting at Apalachee High School, in Windsor, Georgia on Wednesday.
While Aspinwall and Irimie were teachers at Apalachee, Angulo and Schermerhorn, both 14, were students. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey confirmed the identity of the victims in a press briefing Wednesday.
Hosey said two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out.
The suspect, a 14-year-old student at the school, identified as Colt Gray, immediately surrendered and was taken into custody. He is being charged as an adult with murder.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said in the aftermath of the shooting that his "heart hurts for our community."
“My heart hurts for these kids. My heart hurts for our community,” Smith said. “But I want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. I want that to be very clear and known. Love will prevail over what happened today.”
Nine people were also injured in the shooting, and as per the latest updates, all of them are expected to survive. One of the injured victims was special education math teacher, David Phenix.
Phenix's daughter confirmed in a post on Facebook that her father was injured. He receiving medical care and is in a stable condition now, his daughter revealed.
The FBI's Atlanta office said its agents were at the school “coordinating with and supporting local law enforcement.”
Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to the shooting during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “It’s just outrageous that every day, in our country, in the United States of America, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive," she said.
Trump, meanwhile, said in a post on social media: “These cherished children were taken from us far too soon by a sick and deranged monster.”