Knox County prosecutors have the option of retrying Ahmad Gatlin, now 20, in the January 2021 attack against two students leaving the East Knoxville school.

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Ahmad Gatlin was convicted as a teenager of two counts of attempted murder in a shooting outside Austin-East and sentenced to 31 years in prison.