1 Killed at Georgia Graduation Shooting, Hours After Texas Tragedy

One was killed and another wounded in a shooting between people who had just attended a graduation ceremony.

US Representative John Lewis leads a march of thousands through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia on 24 March. Participants in Atlanta and across the nation rallied against gun violence and in support of stricter gun control. 

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Barely hours after a student shot and killed nine students and a teacher at a school in Santa Fe, police in metro Atlanta say one person was killed and another wounded in a shooting between people who had just attended a high school graduation ceremony in Clayton County, Georgia, on Friday 18 May.

A police statement after the Friday night shooting in Clayton County, south of Atlanta, says "one person is now confirmed deceased."

The safety chief for the county's schools, Thomas Trawick, says the shots were fired in a Mount Zion High School parking lot after an argument between people who had attended a ceremony for graduates of the Perry Learning Center, which prepares students for careers as an alternative to traditional high schools.

(This is a developing story and will be updated.)

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