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Timeline of how the Georgia high school shooting unfolded on Wednesday | CNN

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Warning had come that morning by phone to Apalachee High School : There would be shootings Wednesday at five schools.

Lyela Sayarath , 16 , saw the boy with the gun turn right toward another classroom, she later recalled.

Haymon-Morris Middle School eighth-grader Tim Mosher was also in second period, Connections B: band, when he heard a gun go off.

Ethan Haney , 13 , grabbed a big drum and got ready to throw it at the shooter.

Authorities got the first calls of an active shooter on campus at 10:20 a.m. , after someone pressed a wearable panic button issued just a week earlier to teachers.

The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, got on the ground and was taken into custody, authorities said.

Pam Mosher left the grocery store and went home to get the school’s texts.

By mid-afternoon , the lockdown had been lifted.

“I hated that my friends and even kids that I don't know are having to go through this’s scary,” Macey Macey , 15 , and her mom reunited in a tearful embrace.

Erin Clark , who had texted love to her “baby, found Ethan safe by the bleachers.

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72

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66

Neutral language

72

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informal

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English

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27

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