(RNN) - Two people were shot at a graduation ceremony across the street from Mount Zion High School in Georgia on Friday night.
The school is in the Atlanta area, about 20 minutes from downtown.
WSB-TV reported two women, who were not students, were shot. One of the women was shot "multiple times in the chest" and has died, according to the station.
The graduation was being held for the Perry Learning Center, an alternative education center, according to Clayton County School Police Chief Thomas Trawick.
In light of an earlier school shooting on Friday at a Texas high school, Trawick said his initial reaction on hearing reports of the shooting were "not good."
"It wasn’t pleasant, I was pretty emotional," he said. "Cause the last thing you want to do is have a situation at a graduation that results in anyone being injured, and definitely not being shot."
Trawick could not confirm the death, or the status of the suspected gunman.
He said the shooting occurred at the end of the ceremony in an overflow parking lot at Mount Zion being used for the graduation.
It was the result of an argument, Trawick said.
(RNN) - Two people were shot at a graduation ceremony across the street from Mount Zion High School in Georgia on Friday night.
The school is in the Atlanta area, about 20 minutes from downtown.
WSB-TV reported two women, who were not students, were shot. One of the women was shot "multiple times in the chest" and has died, according to the station.
The graduation was being held for the Perry Learning Center, an alternative education center, according to Clayton County School Police Chief Thomas Traywick.
New info here on the shooting at Mt. Zion High School in Clayton County. It happened in a parking lot outside the school. Clayton County fire tells me two women were shot, one in the leg, another multiple times in the chest. The woman who was shot in the chest has died. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/yBEszqMaS7
— Justin Wilfon (@JustinWilfonWSB) May 19, 2018
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