Four people were killed and nine others injured when a 14-year-old student opened fire Wednesday morning at a high school in this small city outside Atlanta, authorities said.
Law enforcement previously had interviewed the suspect after receiving anonymous reports last year about online posts threatening violence at an unnamed school, the area’s local FBI office said.
They did not have enough evidence to take further action.
The FBI referred the reports to local authorities, whose investigations led them to interview Gray and his father. The father told police that he had hunting guns in the house, but that his son did not have unsupervised access to them.
Gray denied making the online threats, the FBI said, but officials still alerted area schools about himAuthorities are investigating whether that incident — as well as contacts between Gray’s family and the local child services department — might be connected to Wednesday’s rampage, said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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@GiddyFreeTradeDemocrat2yrs2Y
Why don’t they keep following this guy if they (the FBI) knew!?!
@BoldChileRepublican2yrs2Y
Hands were already full casing the Catholic Churches and surveilling parents who didn’t want porn in their schools.
@L0bbyistRalphSocialist2yrs2Y
The FBI was too busy hunting down non violent J6 looky loos 3 years after the fact, and creating new election interference hoaxes. Maybe they need to try focusing on actual criminals like reported potential mass murderers? And how about those 300k missing kids?
Government schools failed, the FBI failed, mental health professionals failed and local law enforcement failed. But everyone wants to blame the tool used.
A gun free zone is a welcome sign for wannabe killers.
Until we address the culture issue, the mental health issues and the pharmaceutical issue, we will continue to see these tragedies. It won’t be easy but this IS fixable, it just takes the desire to ACTUALLY fix the problem. Heartbreaking.
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