What is known about the 14-year-old boy who murdered 4 people at a school in Georgia?

This Wednesday, September 4, it was reported A filming at a high school in Winder, Georgia, in USA .

The situation occurred at the Apalachee Institute in the said city and left a total of four dead and at least nine injured who were taken to hospital after the incident.

The deceased were two teachers and two students. : Christina Irimie (53 years old), Richard Aspinwall (39 years old), Mason Schermerhorn (14 years old) and Christian Angulo (14 years old).

The attack was made by a student named Colt Gray (14 years old) who remains in custody and is charged with murder.

According to the authorities, will be tried as an adult .

Previously, Gray was on the FBI’s radar and was even questioned by the police in mid-2023.

It happened because it was possible. suspected of making anonymous threats on the Internet .

However, the teenager, who was then 13 years old, He denied having been the source of these publications .

The positions They contained images of weapons and explicitly warned of a shooting at an educational center. .

County Sheriff Judd Smith warned on the day of the attack that “it will be several days before we have answers about what happened and why it happened “.

Nevertheless, Some details of the case are already known which was first alerted at around 10:20 a.m. (local time).

At a press conference, the sheriff assured that “in a few minutes, THE police arrived on the scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned to the institute who immediately met the subject.

He clarified that Gray did not resist when he saw the troops .

“He gave up immediately. He gave up, He fell to the ground and the police arrested him. ” Smith added in statements saved by the BBC .

In the midst of this scenario, Police took the students to a nearby stadium before they can meet their family.

The high school was emptied and closed for the preparation of expert reports .

According to a law enforcement official cnn , The weapon used by the attacker was a AR-15 style rifle .

This platform tends to be used in mass shootings in the United States including the assassination attempt former President Donald Trump faced in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a rally on July 13.

In May 2023, the National Threat Operations Center The FBI has detected a series of anonymous tips suggesting the possibility of a school shooting without specifying details such as location or time.

Such publications They included photographs of weapons, so agents could trace their origins. .

A release released by the institution said that within 24 hours they determined that the positions They had been manufactured in Georgia, so the Atlanta office forwarded the information to Jackson County agents. to take appropriate measures.

There they located a possible suspect, then aged 13 .

It was Colt Grey So the officials questioned him and his father.

“The father stated that he had hunting weapons at home, but that the subject (his son) did not have unsupervised access to them. “He denied making any threats online.” .

From the FBI they say that Local schools have been alerted to continue monitoring the young man .

“At that time, there was no reason for his arrest. or to take additional police action,” they say.

Afterwards, Gray began attending another school, in Barrow County. This is precisely where the Apalachee Institute is located.

A student who said she sat next to the shooter, Lyela Sayarath, told CNN that On the day of the attack, around 9:45 a.m., he left the math class in which they were.

At first he thought he was going to the toilet, but since he didn’t ask permission, It was thought he probably wanted to skip class. .

He said that when the course was almost over, They asked the professor over the loudspeaker to check his emails. .

Shortly after, Gray came back and tried to enter the room again, but the door was closed. .

There, another student approached to open it. However, He walked away when he saw his partner was carrying a gun .

“I guess he saw that we weren’t going to let him in (…) And I guess the door to the next room was open, so I think he started shooting into the classroom. ” he told the aforementioned media.

That’s when he heard a burst of 10 to 15 shots then hear “one after the other”.

Faced with this situation, the students fell to the ground and they crawled to a corner for cover.

In his words, “It seemed like I hadn’t planned it very well. or that he wasn’t very good with a gun, because he didn’t try to shoot at our door.

“When he saw that he couldn’t get into our room, he went to the next one.” he added.

Sayarath described Gray as a “quiet boy” who had recently arrived at school and who often skipped classes .

“He never really spoke. He was pretty quiet. Most of the time he wasn’t there, he just didn’t come to school or he skipped classes. . But even when he spoke, it was either one-word answers or short sentences.

In this sense, he stressed: “I couldn’t tell what his voice sounded like, or even describe his face. . “It was just there.”

Until the day after the episode, Authorities have not said a motive for the attack or how he obtained the weapon. He also had no relationship with the victims. .