A law enforcement expert discussed what Georgia agencies are lasered in on as they continue to investigate the tragic Apalachee High School shooting.
Matthew Fagiana, a retired police sergeant and law enforcement consultant, told Fox News Digital that Georgia's top law enforcement agencies are continuing to investigate Colt Gray's motivation while simultaneously working on ways to prevent future mass shootings in the community.
The suspected shooter, 14-year-old Gray, opened fire at the high school, killing 2 teachers and 2 students.
Fagiana said that law enforcement is focused on the 14-year-old's past and if he had any known interactions with the victims. The law enforcement expert also said that investigative units would likely meticulously comb through Gray's home as well as the high school.
"I can only assume that the crime scene at the school is quite large," he said. "Those types of scenes require a very meticulous examination and collection of evidence – things like logging locations of evidence, spent casings.
"Fagiana said that investigators are attempting to answer what prompted the suspected shooter to open fire."One important piece of the suspect being taken into custody will be the interviews he provides to investigators," he said. "Any time we have someone who commits a mass killing, one of the most important questions we are trying to answer is the 'why.'"
"And because many school shooters either kill themselves, or are killed by law enforcement to prevent further harm to others, we are often left without the ‘why’ and can only develop theories based on their history and any evidence they leave behind," he said.
Read the full article about the shooting suspect by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten.
The charges against the father of a Georgia teenager accused of killing four people at his high school are “directly” connected to letting the boy possess a weapon, authorities said Thursday.
Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said Colin Gray, 54, "knowingly allowed" his son, Colt Gray, 14, to have a weapon.
The elder Gray has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
In addition to killing two students and two teachers, Colt Gray wounded nine others – two teachers and seven students, authorities said at a news conference.
Those injured are expected to recover, said Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith.“A young person brought a gun into a school and committed an evil act and he took lives and he injured many other people — not only physically but mentally,” he said.
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