Questions surround weapon, motive in deadly Georgia high school shooting

WINDER, Georgia -- As investigators worked to find a motive down Wednesday's deadly schoolhouse shooting successful Georgia, they said they were besides seeking answers astir the limb allegedly utilized by the 14-year-old suspect.

The shooting aboriginal Wednesday astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder killed 2 students and 2 teachers, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Richard Aspinwall, Christina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo were each victims successful the Apalachee High School shooting connected September 4.

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Teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were killed, on with students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, 14, officials said.

Eight different students and 1 teacher were besides injured, officials said. All of the injured victims are expected to recover, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said.

According to the school's shot program, Aspinwall besides served arsenic the team's antiaircraft coordinator.

The 14-year-old suspect, Colt Gray, a pupil astatine the school, surrendered astatine the country to the schoolhouse assets officers and was taken into custody, the GBI said. He volition beryllium charged with execution and tried arsenic an adult, the GBI said.

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He was being held Thursday greeting astatine Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, the Department of Juvenile Justice told ABC News' affiliate WSB.

An AR-platform-style limb was utilized successful the shooting, according to GBI Director Chris Hosey.

Officials said they did not yet person answers for however Gray was allegedly capable to get the weapon and get it into the school. Gray was interviewed by investigators and the GBI, but Smith did not disclose further details.

A motive has not yet been determined and it is chartless if the victims were targeted, investigators said.

Teachers astatine the precocious schoolhouse had IDs that alert instrumentality enforcement during an progressive incidental -- a caller information strategy that was implemented conscionable 1 week ago, the sheriff said.

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In May 2023, authorities interviewed the suspect, who was past 13, astir alleged threats to perpetrate a schoolhouse shooting, according to the FBI.

The FBI said it received anonymous tips astir online threats to perpetrate a schoolhouse shooting astatine an unidentified spot and time. The online threats contained photos of guns, the FBI added.

The boy's dada told authorities helium had hunting guns successful the house, but helium said his 13-year-old lad didn't person entree to the weapons, the FBI said.

When the 13-year-old was interviewed, helium denied making the threats, the Jackson County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office said.

"At that time, determination was nary probable origin for apprehension oregon to instrumentality immoderate further instrumentality enforcement enactment connected the local, state, oregon national levels," the FBI said.

The sheriff's bureau said it "alerted section schools for continued monitoring of the subject."