The boy and his father were interviewed last year over online threats and access to firearms.
Students and parents walk off campus at Apalachee High School on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Georgia, after a fatal shooting.
When the teen slipped out of class Wednesday, Lyela Sayarath figured her quiet fellow student who recently transferred was skipping school again. But he returned later and wanted back into the room. Some students went to open the locked door but instead backed away.The teen then turned the gun on people in a hallway.
“All the students that had to watch their teachers and their fellow classmates die, the ones that had to walk out of the school limping, that looked traumatized,” Sayarath said.in the U.S. so far this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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. Mark Gorman holds a candle during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. On Wednesday evening, hundreds gathered in Jug Tavern Park in downtown Winder for a vigil. Volunteers handed out candles. Some knelt as a Methodist minister led the crowd in prayer after a Barrow County commissioner read a Jewish prayer of mourning.
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