Teen Charged in Deadly Georgia School Shooting

A 14-year-old boy will be charged with murder after four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Georgia high school.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said two pupils and two teachers died in the attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.

Colt Gray, a student at the school, was arrested by two officers on campus, an official said. He will be tried as an adult.

It has emerged that the FBI interviewed him last year after receiving anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting, but agents did not arrest him at the time.

"The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them," the FBI said in a statement.

"At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels."

Officers first received reports of a shooting at the school of around 1,900 pupils.

Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Chris Hosey said “At approximately 10:20 a.m. this morning, the Barrow County Sheriff's Office received alerts about reports of an active shooter in radio traffic from school resource officers concerning the same concern or having the same concern. Within minutes, law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school who immediately encountered the subject within just minutes of this report going out. Once they encountered the subject, the subject immediately surrendered to these officers, and he was taken into custody.”

“Additionally, what I want you to know, as of now, there are four individuals who are deceased from this incident, nine that have been taken to local hospitals with various injuries. Of those that are deceased, two were students and two were teachers here at the school,” he added.

Officials said no motive had been identified and that law enforcement did not know of "any targets at this point".