The FBI admitted they received anonymous tips on threats against the Georgia school shooting suspect a year ago.
The suspect was interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in 2023, according to a statement from the FBI.
“In May 2023, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time,” the statement said. “The online threatscontained photographs of guns. Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office referred the information to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for action.”
“The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father,” the statement added. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject.”
At the time, there was “no probably cause for arrest,” the FBI explained.
In a subsequent statement on X, the FBI confirmed that the subject in the 2023 interview was the “same subject in custody.”
Two teachers and two students were killed during Wednesday’s shooting at Apalachee High School.
The victims are 14-year-olds Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie.
