Apalachee High School shooting is one of these school shootings in 2024

Two students and two teachers at the Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, were shot and nine other people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds on Wednesday.

The fatal incident on Sept. 4 was the 218th time a gun was fired or brandished in a school in 2024, according to the data. The total number of shootings includes all incidents in which people are shot, injured or killed, regardless of how many people are involved.

The suspected shooter – a 14-year-old student at the northern Georgia school – was arrested and charged with murder. Authorities said he will be tried as an adult.

A CBS News analysis of data from the K-12 Shooting Database shows that of the more than 200 incidents through Sept. 4 — which include gang violence, domestic incidents and accidents — 10 occurred in Georgia, including the shooting at Apalachee High School.

And like the majority — nearly 51% — of school shootings over the past 10 years, the deadly incident in north Georgia occurred during the school day, while classes were in session. The 2022 shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers Robb Elementary Schooloccurred, for example, during school operations.

The rest occur after school, usually during extracurricular activities such as sports or school events, such as a 2023 shooting at a high school football game in New Jersey. where a 10-year-old was killedData shows that shootings inside school buildings tend to be more deadly.

So far in 2024, 18 of the 46 people killed in school shootings have been under the age of 18 (this number does not include the two students and two teachers killed in the September 4 shooting).

Since the 1960s, mass shootings in which four or more people are killed or injured have accounted for only a small fraction of the number of firearm deaths and injuries in schools in the United States. Seventy-five percent (75.69%) of deaths and 68% (68.55%) of injuries occur in incidents that are not classified as mass shootings and do not attract as much attention.

After the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado—the worst in the United States at the time—many states began mandating school shooting drills, which reached 95 percent of public schools in the 2015-16 school year. CBS News previously reported.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the year of the Columbine shooting.

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