Macey, 21, and her daughter are safe at school: When a friend of her friend shot her shoulder in the shoulder went hard lockdown

It was hard for Dr Pattman to comprehend that many students have to live with the same situation every day while in high school. But she said that she and her daughter would find a way to soldier on. She spoke on Wednesday afternoon with a resolve that seemed laced with resignation.

Macey’s friend, a fellow freshman, had been shot in the shoulder, and Macey was worried about her. She told her mother she did not want to go back to school and get shot.

The mother and daughter were finally together about an hour later. A friend had picked Macey up from Apalachee and taken her to a convenience store, where her mother was waiting. They hugged each other.

Then her own school went into hard lockdown mode. Students hid in a corner. There are no lights out. Quiet. They stayed there for about one hour from 11:30 a.m. to about 1 p.m.

“I think most of it just comes from not living in fear, knowing that things like this happen,” she said. It’s also in grocery stores in churches. I think that no place is exempt.

“At that moment, the primary thing was continuing this communication with my daughter, but now I’m also responsible for keeping my other children safe,” she said of her students.

The Shooting of a 14-Year-Old Student at Apalachee High School in Georgia: Mason and Christian Schermerhorn

The Apalachee High School shooting was the worst instance of school violence in the state’s history. At least nine others were injured.

The authorities said the dead students were a pair of 14-year-olds named Mason and Christian. The educators killed were identified as Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie, officials said. The names had not been confirmed by the authorities.

Chris Hosey is the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “Those that are in the hospital recovering right now are heroes in my book.”

Mason Schermerhorn was described by friends of his family as a lighthearted teenager who liked spending time with his family, reading, telling jokes, playing video games and visiting Walt Disney World. He had recently started at the school.

“He really enjoyed life,” said Doug Kilburn, 40, a friend who has known Schermerhorn’s mother for a decade. He always had an upbeat attitude.

He called the mother of the shooting victim to see if everything was okay. She told him: “Mason’s gone.”

The 14-year-old male student will be charged with the murder of a teacher at the school. Students barricaded themselves in classrooms and heard gunfire.

David Phenix, a math special education teacher and the school’s golf coach, was injured during the shooting. Katie Phenix, his daughter, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he was shot in the foot and hip, shattering his hip bone.