The FBI has confirmed that the 14-year-old Apalachee Excessive Faculty shooter, Colt Grey, a pupil on the Georgia college, was identified to the company as early as Could 2023 after receiving “a number of nameless recommendations on on-line threats to commit a faculty taking pictures at an unidentified location and time.”
This comes after we realized that an unidentified particular person additionally warned the highschool through cellphone that it will be the primary of 5 faculties focused with violence previous to the taking pictures on Wednesday.
Grey denied making the threats in an interview with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace. Per FBI Atlanta, “Jackson County alerted native faculties for continued monitoring of the topic,” however no extra motion was taken.
The total assertion launched by FBI Atlanta at 7:49 pm ET on X reads,
FBI Atlanta responded earlier at the moment to Apalachee Excessive Faculty following studies of an lively shooter. All through the day FBI personnel have been coordinating with and supporting native and state regulation enforcement. The FBI will dedicate all accessible sources, as requested, to hunt justice and produce closure for the victims and their households.
In Could 2023, the FBI’s Nationwide Menace Operations Heart obtained a number of nameless recommendations on on-line threats to commit a faculty taking pictures at an unidentified location and time. The net threats contained images of weapons. Inside 24 hours, the FBI decided the web submit originated in Georgia and the FBI’s Atlanta Area Workplace referred the knowledge to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace for motion.
The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Workplace situated a potential topic, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The daddy acknowledged he had searching weapons in the home, however the topic didn’t have unsupervised entry to them. The topic denied making the threats on-line. Jackson County alerted native faculties for continued monitoring of the topic.
At the moment, there was no possible trigger for arrest or to take any extra regulation enforcement motion on the native, state, or federal ranges.
— FBI Atlanta (@FBIAtlanta) September 4, 2024
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation additional confirmed that the FBI’s assertion is in connection to the coed who was taken into custody earlier.
Right here’s the FBI assertion in connection to the topic in custody for at the moment’s taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive Faculty. https://t.co/pbeEIn1vMI
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) September 5, 2024
Moreover, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Cellular advert knowledge evaluation reveals somebody who commonly visited would-be Trump murderer Thomas Matthew Crooks’ Pennsylvania dwelling additionally visited a constructing in DC close to an FBI workplace. It’s unclear if the FBI had any contact with Crooks previous to the try on President Trump’s life in Butler Pennsylvania.
One other submit on X factors out that the FBI might have had information of a number of different earlier mass murderers in Buffalo, NY; Boulder, CO; Parkland Springs, FL; Sutherland Springs, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Orlando, FL; San Bernardino, CA; and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
It is virtually like you need to cease chasing after mother and father who say issues college boards do not like and begin DOING YOUR FUVKING JOB!!! pic.twitter.com/RMcqvXdWFM
— ☠️Bobby Powell☠️ (@LivesObi) September 5, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported that the incident occurred round 10:30 a.m. on the college, situated in Winder, Georgia, roughly 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. As of two:23 p.m. ET, CNN confirmed that 9 of the injured have been transferred to native hospitals, whereas 4 individuals have been confirmed lifeless on the scene.
The shooter was later recognized as 14-year-old Colt Grey.
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