Teachers at the scene of this week’s mass school shooting in Georgia frantically pressed wearable panic buttons — part of a new security system activated just last week — to alert local law enforcement.
Officers almost immediately mobilized around Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta — likely preventing the loss of even more life.
“The protocols in this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today,” said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, at a press conference Wednesday — where officials say hours earlier, 14-year-old student Colt Gray fatally gunned down two students and two teachers.
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