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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joanna Walters, Ed Pilkington and agency

Georgia school shooting: teen suspect was interviewed over threats last year

law enforcement officials outside the green doors to a brick building
Police at Apalachee high school after the shooting in which four people were killed and nine injured. Photograph: Christopher Oquendo/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

The 14-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting two students and two teachers with an assault-style rifle at a high school in Georgia on Wednesday had previously been interviewed by investigators, with his father insisting the teenager did not have unsupervised access to the family’s guns.

The small city of Winder is in deep shock and mourning over the shooting at Apalachee high school, about 50 miles from Atlanta, as the victims who died were named.

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