The 14-year-old pupil who killed 4 of his schoolmates in US’s Georgia was questioned final yr by police about on-line threats, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mentioned.
In Could 2023, Colt Grey was questioned by police who believed he was behind web posts that contained photographs of weapons, warning of a faculty capturing.
The FBI mentioned its Nationwide Risk Operations Middle had alerted native legislation enforcement after receiving tips on “on-line threats to commit a faculty capturing at an unidentified location and time”.
After the situation of the threats had been decided, the police interviewed the teenager and his father.
Whereas the teenager denied sending the threats, his father advised police that he had searching weapons in the home however the then 13-year-old “didn’t have unsupervised entry to them”.
“On the time, there was no possible trigger for an arrest or to take any further legislation enforcement motion on the native, state or federal ranges,” the FBI mentioned in an announcement.
On Wednesday, the boy used an assault rifle to open hearth in Apalachee Excessive College, killing two lecturers and two pupil, investigators say.Â
Eight different college students and one instructor had been injured within the assault. Grey was arrested from the varsity premises and shall be tried as an grownup.
The varsity despatched out a message to oldsters saying it was “presently in a tough lockdown after reviews of gunfire.”
Survivors recounted the second when Grey started attacking the scholars. One pupil advised BBC that she noticed him depart a category after a maths lesson and when he returned he had a gun in his hand. Certainly one of her classmates noticed the gun and refused to open the door for Grey at the same time as he continued to pound on it.
Grey then moved to the following classroom and opened hearth.
In keeping with the BBC, this was the twenty third US college capturing of 2024. Thus far 11 folks have died and 38 have been injured in such assaults this yr.
