Heartbreaking texts between boy and his mom during Georgia high school shooting revealed
Heartbreaking messages between an Apalachee High School student and his mother show the moment children are told there is an active shooter.
Erin Clark received a text message from her son Ethan at 10:23 a.m. Wednesday morning informing him that there was a school shooting in progress.
He wrote: ‘School shooting rn (right now). I’m scared. I’m not joking.’
His mother responded immediately, assuring him she was leaving work. In a heartbreaking response, Ethan wrote, “I love you.”
“I love you too, honey. Where are you?” Clark said.
Ethan told her he was in class and added, “Someone’s dead.”
Heartbreaking messages between an Apalachee High School student and his mother have revealed the moment children learned there was an active shooter
NBC reports that two people were killed and at least four others were injured in the tragedy in Winder, Georgia.
The high school, which has about 1,900 students, is located 40 kilometers west of Athens.
According to the Burrow County Sheriff’s Office, multiple victims have been reported and one person has been arrested.
Clark later shared her conversation with her son on Facebook, describing the entire ordeal as her “worst nightmare.”
It comes as desperate parents wait at the school for their children to be released. It is understood all pupils are now on the oval pitch and will be allowed to be released.
NBC reports that two people were killed and at least four others were injured in the tragedy in Winder, Georgia
A woman waiting for her friend to pick up her children took to TikTok to livestream the aftermath of the shooting.
“It’s very quiet,” she said.
“It was very noisy when I first came here and now it’s very, very quiet. They say they’re going to turn the children over to their parents, but I haven’t seen anyone walking this way.”
The woman said there were “so many police, I can’t even tell you. The road is completely blocked.”
According to news sources on the ground, panicked parents had to park their cars as far as a mile from the site and walk to their children.
Another parent also described the tragedy as “every parent’s worst nightmare” and said her daughter was “shocked but okay.”
‘When I heard my baby crying and saying she was scared, I felt helpless because I couldn’t get to her.
“The shooting happened very close to her classroom. So close that she heard gunshots.”
Students were ordered to gather on the soccer field before she was released from her parents