my name is sheriff judd smith. i'm the sheriff of barrow county sheriff's office appeared we are standing on the campus of apalachee high school for barrow county schools. first and foremost i want to lift up our community. i want to give our sympathies to our community, our school system, our kids, our parents. that had to witness this today. obviously what you see behind us is an evil thing today. at about 9:30 this morning we receive the first call that there was an active shooter on this campus. we are not releasing any information as far as injuries but we have multiple injuries. this is a very, very fluid investigation. it is very early. i have asked the assistance of the gbi and the agencies here behind me today and the multiple agencies that responded this morning to help us and help the sheriff's office. we do have a suspect in custody and we are asking for your patience as the media to please let us get the facts that we need to make sure that we get this right. again, i have asked of the gbi to help us,

barrow county sheriff judd smith, crediting a new safety app, which was implemented at the school just last week with the quick response from police and with saving lives. they have a button on that id and they press it so many times and it alerts us where that incident is occurring. this morning, we're also learning of heroic acts by math teacher and football coach richard aspinwall. witnesses say he died protecting his students. if he wouldn't have gone out there and checked and seen what the commotion was, who knows if that kid would have been able to come into a second classroom? so he is by far a hero. well, the latest flu and covid vaccines are now available at pharmacies. the new flu vaccines are trivalent, meaning they protect against three viruses. the new covid shots target the cp2 variant, which became dominant in the u.s. at the end of april. but this comes as infectious disease expert doctor peter chin-hong is among those raising concerns over anti-vaccine rhetoric during the election cycle. it's not just about covid, it's about all these infectious diseases that we had ma

. >> judd smith is the faroe county sheriff. >> this hits home for me. i was born and raised here. i went to school in this school system. my kids go to this school system. i'm proud of this school system. but i want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. >> in washington, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said president biden had been briefed on the situation and called for action from congress. >> students and teachers deserve to know that their schools are safe. they should focus on learning, not lockdowns. >> and the shooting reverberated on the campaign trail. vice president kamala harris began an afternoon event in portsmouth, new hampshire, on a solemn note. >> this is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies. and 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. >> donald trump writing on his social media platform said in part, our hearts are with the victims and lov

and i spoke to sheriff judd's smith earlier today and he had told me that any option was possibly on the table, including charging cold grace, father in connection to this deadly shooting, one of the big questions i had after that interview with the sheriff is just how much cold great. is talking. the sheriff told me that he was read his miranda rights and that he just kept talking and talking, even saying i did it. the sheriff told me that cold gray did not deny carrying out that shooting. and of course, we have that stunning reporting from mark morales and ryan young that the jackson county sheriff's office spoke to the father. cnn obtained that audio of that investigation. the father saying, no, my son did not have unsupervised unsupervised access to these guns? yes. we like to hunt the sun denied i know i would never write something like this. not even joke about it, but then we have here around christmas time, around the holidays, 67 months later the father buying him according to our law enforcement sources, buying him the same gun that was used to carry out this heinous attack

i'm sheriff judd smith of the county sheriff office.er imagined -- i've never imagined i would be speaking to the media in my career over something that happened today the pure evil that happened today. i cannot thank the people behind me for the support they give me today, give this office and give this staff. this is home for me. i was born and raised here. i went to school in this school system. my kids go to this school system. i'm proud of this school system. my heart hurts for these kids. my heart hurts for our community. 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. i assure you of that. it is very early as to what happened. governor kemp reached out to me and has provided me every single resource that he has to make sure justice prevails. i don't know why it happened. i may not ever know. we may not ever know. but i ask that you and our community lift up our schools, lift up our public safety, and that, again, we do