FBI Was Tipped Off About Georgia High School Shooting Suspect Last Year
The teenage boy suspected of opening fire at his Georgia high school on Wednesday morning, killing four people, was interviewed by law enforcement last year after the FBI received anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting, according to the agency’s Atlanta Field Office.
The threats, which did not specify details such as place and time, included photos of guns, the field office said in a release. “Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office referred the information to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for action,” the release stated.
The sheriff’s office tracked down a possible suspect, the teenager, then 13 years old, and interviewed both him and his father. The father told investigators that he kept hunting guns in the house, but that his son did not have unsupervised access to them.