The 14-year-old boy responsible for the Georgia high school shooting was investigated by the FBI last year.

Four people died and nine others were injured in a shooting that spread terror for several hours in a Georgia Institute (USA). He The perpetrator of the shooting is a minor under 14 years old. who has already been arrested. He will be charged with murder and tried as an adult, local authorities reported.

The teenager, identified as Colt Grey, killed four people, two of them were students from Winder’s Apalachee High School and the other two teachersGeorgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at a news conference. The injured were transported to a local hospital, according to the cnnwho pointed out that they are not all bullets.

Security forces received a warning call at 10:20 a.m. local time. The attacker, also a student at the educational center, was found by officers a few minutes after they arrived at the scene and He surrendered as soon as he was surrounded. According to what was stated at the press conference, when he realized that he was at risk of being shot if he did not surrender, he surrendered, lay down on the ground and was taken into custody.

According to EfeThe young man has already been questioned and is cooperating with the authorities. In addition, law enforcement officials stressed that it is still too early to have all the information about what happened.

Survey in 2023

It is not yet known whether he was related to the victims.a link that the open investigation is analyzing, and no details on the weapon used or the number of shots fired have been provided. However, the young man was already on the radar of federal authorities.

As the FBI Atlanta Field Office and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office explained in a joint statement, the young man was was investigated by the FBI in 2023 for posting threats online with photographs of weapons.

“In May 2023, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous threat tips. online to commit a school shooting at an unidentified time and location,” reads the FBI publication, viewed ABC News.

“Within 24 hours,” the statement continued, “the FBI determined that the message originated in Georgia and the FBI Atlanta Field Office forwarded the information to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for action.”

They identified a possible suspect, a boy who was only 13 at the time, and questioned him. He denied making any threats. His father was also questioned, who said he had weapons in the house but said his son did not have access to them without supervision.

Since there was no probable cause to arrest him, the sheriff’s office alerted area schools of the threat. Now, they have confirmed that the shooter is indeed that boy.

Terror in the classrooms

A witness cited by ABC News, Student Sergio Caldera said he was in chemistry class when he heard gunshots. His teacher opened the door and another teacher ran in to tell him to shut it. “because there is an active shooter.”

As students and teachers gathered in the classroom, someone knocked on the door and shouted several times for them to open it. When the knocking stopped, Caldera heard more gunshots and screamsHe said his class was then evacuated to the school’s football field.

In the images released by local media you can see the school center evacuated, with thousands of students outside. Several ambulances and police were seen in the area, as well as a medical helicopter, which transported several people to the scene.

Windera community about an hour from Atlanta, has a population of about 18,338, according to the Census Bureau. cnn He said the Barrow County school system has about 15,340 students enrolled, including 1,932 enrolled at Apalachee High School.

“A senseless tragedy”

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris expressed support for the students, teachers and their families, calling Wednesday’s shooting “one of many senseless tragedies.”

“Every day in our country, parents have to send their children to school wondering if they will come home alive. This makes no sense, we have to stop this. It doesn’t have to be this way,” he shouted at a rally in New Hampshire.

Harris said that last year, during a tour of middle schools where he met with young leaders, he always asked them to raise their hand “if at any point between kindergarten and high school you had to do drills on how to act in the event of a shooter,” the response was “almost everyone raised their hand.”

“I grew up in California and we have earthquake drills, we have fire drills… But our kids are sitting in a classroom where they should be performing at their best and part of their precious brain is worried about a shooter coming into the classroom door. It doesn’t have to be that way,” he insisted.

Biden: “This is not normal”

The President Joe Biden deplored the shooting: “We cannot continue to accept it as normal.” The president noted in a statement released by the White House that what could have been a “happy return to classes at Winder has become another “A horrific reminder of how gun violence continues to tear communities apart.” of the country.

He and first lady Jill Biden mourned those whose lives were cut short by more “senseless” violence, he said, and thought of the survivors whose lives were forever changed. “Students are being taught to hide and cover instead of reading and writing. (…) Ending this epidemic of gun violence is close to my heart.” he added.

This is the reason, according to Biden, why he ratified the bipartisan gun regulation bill or for which he announced dozens of executive actions in favor of security against this type of violence.

“We have made significant progress, but this crisis requires more,” he said, stressing that “after decades of inaction, Republicans in Congress must say ‘enough is enough’ and work with Republicans to pass common-sense gun safety legislation.”

Biden reiterated his call to ban assault weapons or end manufacturers’ immunity: “These measures will not bring back the lives of those who tragically lost their lives today,” but they will help prevent further tragic acts of gun violence from destroying more families,” he said.

Over the past two decades, the United States has been rocked by Hundreds of school and university shootingsthe deadliest, which left more than 30 dead at Virginia Tech in 2007.

The Gun Violence Archive, a platform that documents gun violence in the United States, reported Wednesday that So far this year, there have been 384 shootings in the country. mass murder, a term that includes at least four people injured or killed, not including the aggressor.

With each new massacre a new one intense debate on gun laws in the United States and the Second Amendment to that country’s Constitution, which enshrines the right “to keep and bear arms.”