The FBI has confirmed that the 14-year-old Apalachee High School shooter, Colt Gray, a student at the Georgia school, was known to the agency as early as May 2023 after receiving “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time.”
This comes after we learned that an unidentified individual also warned the high school via phone that it would be the first of five schools targeted with violence prior to the shooting on Wednesday.
Gray denied making the threats in an interview with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Per FBI Atlanta, “Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject,” but no additional action was taken.
The full statement released by FBI Atlanta at 7:49 pm ET on X reads,