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School massacre, the FBI alerted the authorities 1 year ago about the 14-year-old

2024-09-05 08:07:49Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

School massacre, the FBI alerted the authorities 1 year ago about the

A boy accused of killing four people at his high school in Georgia, US, was interviewed by police last year about anonymous online threats, the FBI said.

According to foreign media, Colt Gray, 14, denied to police in May 2023 that he was behind Internet posts containing images of guns, thus warning of school shootings.

The suspect opened fire Wednesday at Apalachee High School in the town of Winder, killing two teachers and two students, investigators say. Eight students and a teacher were injured.

He was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult.

Police have identified the victims as teachers Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall and 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo.

At a news conference, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said the weapon used was an "AR platform style weapon."

In a statement, the FBI said its National Threat Operations Center notified local law enforcement in May 2023 after receiving anonymous tips about "online threats to carry out school shootings at a location and unspecified time".

The agency said that within 24 hours, investigators had determined that the threats originated in Georgia.

Sheriff's deputies interviewed the son and his father, who "stated that there were firearms in the home, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them," the FBI said.

The suspect, who was 13 at the time, denied making the online threats and officials "alerted local schools to continue monitoring this matter."

"At that time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional local, state or federal law enforcement action," the FBI statement added.

Sheriff Jud Smith described the attack as "pure evil" and said officers were on the scene within minutes of receiving the 911 calls at 10:20 a.m. local time (14:20 GMT).

Two officers assigned to the school "immediately encountered the subject," the sheriff said, adding that the boy "immediately surrendered."

The boy was interviewed and spoke to investigators once while in custody, Sheriff Smith said.

The sheriff added that no motive had been identified and that law enforcement did not know of "any target at this point."

Students described chaotic scenes as it was signaled that an attacker was on campus. Classes in Apalachee started last month, but many students across the US are heading back to school this week.

Lyela Sayarath, who was in the alleged attacker's class, told CNN that the suspect left the room at the start of an algebra lesson.

She said he turned around and knocked on the door, which was locked automatically, but another student refused to let him in after noticing he had a gun.

Lyela told CNN that the gunman then went into the classroom next door, where he started shooting.

Marques Coleman, 14, said he saw the gunman holding a "big gun" shortly before the shooting began.

"I got up, started running, he started shooting about 10 times. He shot at least 10 times," he told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

"My teacher started blocking the door with desks," he said.

After standing up, the student said he saw "one of my classmates on the ground bleeding so bad," another girl shot in the leg and a friend shot in the stomach.

A ceremony was held Wednesday evening in the town of 18,000, about 50 miles (80 km) from Atlanta.

It was the 23rd US school shooting of 2024, according to a database kept by Education Week magazine, which counts 11 dead and 38 injured in such attacks so far this year.

David Riedman, who runs the K-12 school shooting database, told the Reuters news agency that the Georgia shooting was the "first planned attack" at a school this fall.


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