According to NBC News A 14-year-old boy shocked the country on Wednesday by killing two peers and two teachers at a high school in Georgia and hurting nine others. It was the first major campus shooting of the school year.
Investigators said the suspect was caught soon after the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. The suspect had been investigated by police the previous year for making threats about shooting up a school on the internet.
The Teen’s Identity Was Not Disclosed
Colt Gray, 14, was found and named. At a news conference, Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said that he would be charged and tried like an adult. The sheriff of Barrow County, Jud Smith, said that the cops at the school quickly approached the gunman, who was carrying a semiautomatic rifle called a “AR platform style weapon.”
The culprit jumped to the ground and then stood back up. Police talked to the suspect after he was arrested because they think he was acting alone. But they wouldn’t say what made him do it.
Christians Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, two 14-year-old students, and Christina Irimie, 53, a teacher, were named by officials as the people who died. Smith told reporters that all nine of the hospitalized patients were expected to fully recover. Smith said, “What happened today was pure evil.”
After some time, the FBI said in a statement that it had looked into internet threats to shoot up a school in 2023 and that they had talked to the father of a 13-year-old child who lived in Jackson County, which is right next door. The statement did not say who the teen was, but Georgia police said it had something to do with the person who was arrested.
The National Conversation About Gun Control
“The subject didn’t have unsupervised access to the hunting rifles in the house, but the father admitted that they were there.” The person said they didn’t make the threats on the internet.
The FBI said that “Jackson County informed nearby schools of ongoing surveillance of the subject,” so there was no reason to make an arrest. The shootings brought up the issue of gun control across the country and caused a lot of grief in a country where these kinds of things happen all the time.
Later that night, people from Winder, a city of 18,000 people about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Atlanta, gathered in a park for a prayer service. Others leaned on each other or bowed their heads in prayer while others lit lights to remember the dead.
“Everyone is hurting.” “Because when something happens to one of us, it happens to all of us,” Power Evans, a member of the city council, said in his speech. “I know that tonight we will all be here.” We’re going to love each other. We are all linked. We all live next door to each other.