The 14-year-old scholar 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) stated.
In Could 2023, Colt Grey was questioned by police who believed he was behind web posts that contained pictures of weapons, warning of a faculty taking pictures.
The FBI stated its Nationwide Menace Operations Heart had alerted native regulation enforcement after receiving tips on “on-line threats to commit a faculty taking pictures at an unidentified location and time”.
After the situation of the threats have been decided, the police interviewed the teenager and his father.
Whereas the teenager denied sending the threats, his father instructed 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 extra regulation enforcement motion on the native, state or federal ranges,” the FBI stated in an announcement.
On Wednesday, the boy used an assault rifle to open fireplace in Apalachee Excessive Faculty, killing two lecturers and two scholar, investigators say.
Eight different college students and one instructor have been injured within the assault. Grey was arrested from the college premises and might be tried as an grownup.
The varsity despatched out a message to folks saying it was “presently in a tough lockdown after stories of gunfire.”
Survivors recounted the second when Grey started attacking the scholars. One scholar instructed BBC that she noticed him go away 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 fireplace.
In keeping with the BBC, this was the twenty third US college taking pictures of 2024. Up to now 11 individuals have died and 38 have been injured in such assaults this yr.
