The teenager and his father were interviewed in 2023 by local law enforcement in connection with online threats about carrying out a school shooting.
Teen to be charged and tried as an adult, to appear in court on Friday.Investigators in Georgia are piecing together how a teenager obtained the semiautomatic rifle he used to carry out aat his school and whether there were any additional warning signs after authorities visited his home a year ago.
Tips sent to the FBI, including from Australia, warned that a threat had been made in a chat group to “shoot up a middle school”,This booking image provided by the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office shows Colt Gray, 14, who has been charged as an adult with murder over the fatal shootings at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia,The tips were from computers based in Palmdale and Los Angeles, California, and Cockburn, Western Australia, thereported.
Investigators from the Jackson County sheriff’s department interviewed the Grays in May 2023 after receiving a tip from the FBI about a threat posted in a Discord channel. Both Grays told investigators they had no connection to the Discord account on which the threats were made.
Gray was being held without bond at Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Centre, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice communications director Glenn Allen said on Thursday.His arraignment is set for Friday morning before a Georgia Superior Court judge in Barrow County by video camera. People in Winder, a city of 18,000 about 80 kilometres north-east of Atlanta, gathered on Wednesday night in a park for a prayer vigil for the victims.
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