How wearable panic buttons likely prevented more deaths during mass shooting at Georgia high school

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How wearable panic buttons likely prevented more deaths during mass shooting at Georgia high school
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Chilling video shows classroom on lockdown during shooting at Apalachee High School

“The protocols in this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today,” said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, at a press conference Wednesday — where officials say hours earlier, 14-year-old student Colt GrayApalachee High School teachers who were at the scene of the mass shooting pressed wearable panic buttons — part of a new security system activated just last week — to alert local law enforcement...

Alleged Georgia school shooter Colt Gray was 'ridiculed' by classmates who frequently called him 'gay': father He holed up with his class and mentally prepared himself to fight back with a pair of scissors that he had in his pocket.Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news conference Wednesday, “The protocols in this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today,”“I did accept the fact that I might die.”It would require schools to install silent panic alarms that directly link to law enforcement.

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