A 14-year-old suspected of carrying out a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia Wednesday had reportedly been interviewed by police for threatening a shooting more than a year before he allegedly opened fire, killing four people and wounding nine others.
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Colt Gray, who is currently being held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, was questioned last year after authorities were tipped off to online threats he'd made to commit a school shooting, FBI Atlanta and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday night, but there was "no probable cause for arrest" at the time.
During the interview, authorities found out Gray's father kept hunting guns in the house but were told Gray did not have unsupervised access to the weapons.
The shooting was carried out with an AR-platform weapon, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said, but authorities have not shared any further details on the gun, how Gray is believed to have gotten hold of it or how he got it into the school.
Gray has been charged as an adult in the deaths of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14 years old, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.
The suspect has been described by classmates as a recent transfer who often skipped class, but little else is known about the teen.
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Four people were killed and nine others injured on Wednesday after the shooting at Apalachee High School in northern Georgia. A classmate told news outlets that Gray was sitting with her in algebra class before walking out of the classroom Wednesday morning. He returned and tried to get back into the room, Lyela Sayarath said, but the classmate who went to open the locked door instead backed away. Sayarath said she then heard 10 or 15 shots fired back to back. Two school resource officers quickly found the shooter, who surrendered and was taken into custody.
- That's how many school shootings resulting in injuries or deaths have taken place on K-12 campuses so far this year, according to Education Week. The Apalachee High School shooting is the most deadly, followed by a January shooting at Perry High School in Iowa that killed two people and wounded eight.