Georgia shooter previously interviewed over online threats to commit school shooting, FBI says
The alleged shooter who killed four people at a Georgia high school and wounded nine others Wednesday previously made threats online to commit a school shooting, the FBI said.
In a joint statement, the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said the agency’s National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip in May 2023 about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting.
The threats contained images of guns, the FBI said.
Within 24 hours, investigators determined the threats originated in Georgia and the matter was referred to the Sheriff’s Office.
“The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father,” the FBI said. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them.”
The boy denied making the threats and…