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Latest school shooting is close to home: Apalachee HS under two hours away from MHS

This is the first such shooting in Georgia since 1999

CJ Boxhill and Maddie Hines

Sep 5, 2024

From the Barrow County website.

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, a mass shooting took place at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, which is ninety minutes northeast of Peachtree City. Washington Post reports that “Wednesday’s shooting was the deadliest at a U.S. school in more than a year and marks Georgia’s first fatal school shooting since at least 1999.”

There were four victims in total. Two fourteen-year-olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo; and two math teachers, Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall.

According to NBC News, nine others were injured.

The Washington Post reported at 5:04 this afternoon that the suspect has been charged with four felony counts of murder after he allegedly killed the victims.

Editor’s note: this story is ongoing and the Trail will continue to follow it.

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CJ Boxhill, Multimedia

CJ Boxhill is a junior at McIntosh and is serving his first year on staff as a part of the Multimedia team. He plans to focus on helping people share their experiences and public speaking opportunities. Boxhill is a current member of the Spirit of McIntosh Marching Band, he serves a leadership role as percussion logistics in the band. He also serves as the Vice President of the Skills USA club. Boxhill has won two Rookie Of The Year awards and also two Student Choice awards. Boxhill made silver academic recognition these past two years. He is also a McIntosh ambassador. Boxhill has been working at Chick-Fil-A for the past six months and serves as a team member there. When Boxhill is not working or at school he enjoys playing video games or hanging out with his friends. He is very interested in politics and law. Boxhill is the last of his family to attend McIntosh High School, his sister Davian and Cousins Katrina and Chris have all attended McIntosh. One of his biggest goals in life is to be elected as a future President of the United States.

Maddie Hines, Multimedia

Madison Hines is a Junior at McIntosh and is serving her second year on staff as part of the Multimedia team. In her freshman year, she was Vice President of her class. Hines is currently a McIntosh ambassador and has also done debate at the state level. Hines is interested in things like creative writing, film and law. In fact, from 2017-2019, she spent three weeks of each summer staying on campus at Emory University for this summer program called SIG (Summer Institute for the Gifted.) There she took classes like song writing, filming, working a camera, creative writing, things of that nature. At Emory, she was able to see what life would be like as a college student. She hopes to obtain some degree in law as well as journalism in the future. During her free time, she likes to play volleyball, bake, watch movies, and spend time with friends and family. Because she is new on staff, she hopes to learn new things and new life skills such as responsibility, punctuality and reliability.