According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, an adult charge would be brought against the individual. It stated that more charges are anticipated and that he will appear in court on Friday.
Authorities in the US said on Thursday that a 14-year-old kid has been accused with shooting four people to death at a high school, and they continued to investigate the recent spike in gun violence in the nation.
The teenager is accused of killing two other students, all 14 years old, and two teachers on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in the southern state of Georgia. As a result, the adolescent is charged with four felonies related to murder.
CNN, citing unidentified sources, claimed that the teenager’s father had given him the gun used in the shooting, which it described as an assault rifle in the AR 15 model.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, an adult charge would be brought against the individual. It stated that more charges are anticipated and that he will appear in court on Friday.
The agency stated in a post on X, the previous Twitter platform, that “the investigation into the shooting at Apalachee HS is still active & ongoing.”
It went on, “This is day 2 of a very complex investigation & the integrity of the case is paramount,” and said that an autopsy would be performed on all four deaths on Thursday.
In a country where there are comparatively more firearms than people and loose laws prohibiting the purchase of even potent military-style rifles, school shootings are an incredibly common occurrence.
In recent months, the issue of parental responsibility in mass shootings—especially those by minors—has received more attention.
President Joe Biden bemoaned, “How could you have an assault rifle, a weapon in a house, not locked up and knowing your kid knows where it is?” to reporters on Thursday in Wisconsin.
In a rare and well reported instance, the parents of a teenager who killed four people in a Michigan school shooting in April received sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years in jail.
The 46-year-old Jennifer Crumbley and her 47-year-old husband James were the first parents of a school shooter found guilty in the US of involuntary manslaughter due to their child’s actions.