The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the four people who were killed during a shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday morning.
In a press briefing Wednesday night, the GBI identified the victims as Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie, both math teachers, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14 years old. During an earlier news press conference, law enforcement identified the shooting suspect as 14-year-old Colt Gray, a student at the high school.
Two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out, officials said. The suspect, a student at the school, immediately surrendered and was taken into custody. He is being charged as an adult with murder. Authorities said the weapon was an assault-style rifle.
The teen had been interviewed after the FBI received anonymous tips in May 2023 about online threats to commit an unspecified school shooting, the agency said in a statement. The FBI narrowed the threats down and referred to the case to the sheriff’s department in Jackson County, which is adjacent to Barrow County. The sheriff’s office interviewed the then-13-year-old and his father, who said there were hunting guns in the house but the teen did not have unsupervised access to them. The teen also denied making any online threats. The sheriff’s office alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the teen, but there was no probable cause for arrest to additional action.
At least nine other people — eight students and one teacher — were taken to hospitals with injuries. All were expected to survive.
The school will be closed for the remainder of the week.
Lt. Randy Sutton, Founder of The Wounded Blue and law enforcement expert, joins LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall to discuss.
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