Four people were killed and nine others injured when a 14-year-old student opened fire Wednesday morning at a high school in this small city outside Atlanta, authorities said.
Law enforcement previously had interviewed the suspect after receiving anonymous reports last year about online posts threatening violence at an unnamed school, the area’s local FBI office said. They did not have enough evidence to take further action.
The FBI referred the reports to local authorities, whose investigations led them to interview Gray and his father. The father told police that he had hunting guns in the house, but that his son did not have unsupervised access to them.
Gray denied making the online threats, the FBI said, but officials still alerted area schools about himAuthorities are investigating whether that incident — as well as contacts between Gray’s family and the local child services department — might be connected to Wednesday’s rampage, said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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