BBC – A 14-year-old boy will be charged with murder after four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Georgia high school.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said two pupils and two teachers died in Wednesday’s attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.
Colt Gray, a student at the school, was arrested by two officers on campus, an official said. He will be tried as an adult.
It has emerged that the FBI interviewed him last year after receiving anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting, but agents did not arrest him at the time.
Officers first received reports of a shooting at the school of around 1,900 pupils at around 10:20 local time (14:20 GMT).
Local sheriff Jud Smith described the attack as “pure evil”.
“Within minutes law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned to the school who immediately encountered the subject,” the sheriff said in a news conference.
“The subject immediately surrendered. He gave up, got on the ground. And the officers took him into custody.”
Officials said no motive had been identified and that law enforcement did not know of “any targets at this point”.
According to the FBI, investigators had visited the suspect in May 2023 and interviewed him and his father about threats posted online which included pictures of guns.
“The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” the FBI said in a statement.
The suspect, who was 13-years-old at the time, denied making the online threats and officials “alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject”.
“At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.”
