Apalachee High School Shooting Suspect Was On FBI’s Radar Since Last Year

The FBI confirmed on Wednesday that the suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting, which killed four people in Winder, Georgia, had been on its radar since 2023 after several anonymous tips.

In May 2023, the FBI received several tips about online threats made about committing a school shooting at an unidentified place and time, the federal agency wrote in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, adding that the threats included photos of guns.

After the FBI identified that the threats were coming from Georgia, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office identified a 13-year-old boy as a possible suspect. In an interview with him and his father, the sheriff’s office learned that there were guns in their home for hunting but that the suspect in the threats did not have unsupervised access to them.

The teen denied making the online threats, but local schools were alerted about the threats so that the situation could be monitored.

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