Medical Examiner Says Faster Response Wouldn't Have Saved School Shooting Victims

Описание: Samantha Mattox is an associate medical examiner with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who performed autopsies on the four victims of the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.

Mattox testified in the criminal trial of the suspect's father on Wednesday (February 18)

35:12 "And Dr Mattox, in your professional opinion, for all four of these victims...is it likely that quicker medical intervention would have prevented their deaths?""
"In all of these cases, the injuries that were sustained, even if they were sustained ... in front of a hospital, I don't believe would have survived."

Background:

A gunman killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024. Eight students and one teacher were injured.

The victims were Mason Schermerhorn, 14; Christian Angulo, 14; Richard Aspinwall, 39 and a math teacher and defensive coordinator for the school's football team; and Cristina Irimie, 53 and a math teacher.

Colin Gray's oldest son, Colt Gray, is awaiting trial on 55 charges, including counts of murder and aggravated assault.

The father is currently on trial for 29 charges, including involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, cruelty to children and reckless conduct. Prosecutors say he gave his son the rifle used in the shooting as a Christmas gift, despite being told by law enforcement to keep guns away from him.

The jury was selected from Hall County instead of Barrow County because of extensive pretrial publicity in Barrow County. The trial is being held at the Barrow County Courthouse in Winder. Nicholas Primm, the chief judge in Georgia's Piedmont Judicial Circuit, is presiding.
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