🇺🇸 A 14-year-old and his father appeared in court following Georgia's deadliest school shooting

🇺🇸 A 14-year-old and his father appeared in court following Georgia's deadliest school shooting, which left four dead at Apalachee High School. The teen faces felony murder charges, while his father is accused of allowing access to the AR-15 used in the attack. Questions arose about whether school officials were informed of a previous investigation into the teen's online threats. The case adds to a growing trend of prosecuting parents in high-profile school shootings, as seen in a recent Michigan case. The community grapples with the tragedy's aftermath, including increased security measures and social media threats in nearby districts.

The News

‘An evil thing’: 14-year-old charged with murder after four killed in US school shooting

A 14-year-old student has been charged with murder after four people were shot dead at a high school near Atlanta, Georgia.

ABC NewsABC News

Georgia school shooting: teen suspect was interviewed over threats last year

Officials say 14-year-old charged with fatally shooting four at Apalachee high school used assault-style rifle

The GuardianJoanna Walters

Georgia high school shooting: Who are the victims and ‘shooter’ Colt Gray?

A 14-year-old boy allegedly opened fire at Apalachee High School in US state, killing two students and two teachers.

Al JazeeraAl Jazeera Staff

Georgia school shooting latest: Colt Gray appeared in court today

Apalachee High School shooting suspect and his father Colin Gray both appeared in a Georgia courthouse this morning

The IndependentJames Liddell

Georgia school shooting: FBI alerted police to suspect, 14, last year

Local schools were asked to monitor the 14-year-old after online threats about a school shooting in 2023, the FBI says.

BBC News

Bluesky

They bought him the gun AFTER he threatened to shoot up another school (cops couldn't prove it was him)

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— Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) Sep 6, 2024 at 9:09 AM

So six months AFTER the FBI investigated someone at his email for making online threats to shoot up a school, his father bought him an AR-style weapon as a present? (According to this early reporting, grain of salt, etc, but CNN tends to be very careful)

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— Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) Sep 6, 2024 at 8:46 AM

The shooting in Georgia was very familiar. That’s in part because so many kids are killed by guns in the US: more were killed in Georgia alone in 2021 than were killed by guns in all of Western Europe. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) Sep 6, 2024 at 1:20 PM

Georgia students dragged their shot teacher back into their classroom and barricaded the door. This will scar them forever. Not all gun casualties involve blood.

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— Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755.bsky.social) Sep 6, 2024 at 7:26 AM

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