The protocols in this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today," Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told reporters Wednesday.
Experts in school security also credited the school resource officers, who - unlike in some past school shootings - rushed to the scene and quickly managed to take the suspect into custody alive.
One intervention that appears to have mitigated the carnage is the Crisis Alarm System made by an Atlanta-based company called Centegix. It is designed to instantaneously alert law enforcement officials, enabling a rapid response.
The suspect's aunt told The Washington Post that he had been 'begging for months' for mental health help and that 'the adults around him failed him.'
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