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Why a warning from the suspect's mother wasn't enough to stop the Georgia school shooting

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

New details are emerging in the deadly shooting at a Georgia high school that took the lives of four people and injured nine others. The mother of the 14-year-old suspect reportedly contacted the school 30 minutes before the shooting began to warn of an "emergency" regarding her son and asked a counselor to find him. William Brangham discussed more with Chase McGee of Georgia Public Broadcasting. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

New details are emerging in the deadly shooting at a Georgia high school last week that took the lives of four people and injured nine others.

0:08.0

William Bringham has more.

0:10.0

Jeff, the mother of the 14-year-old suspect reportedly contacted Appalachian High School 30 minutes

0:17.3

before the shooting began to warn of a quote extreme emergency regarding her son.

0:23.4

During a 10 minute phone call,

0:24.8

Marcy Gray asked a counselor to find her son,

0:28.4

but school officials were not able to locate him in time.

0:32.3

This has raised even more questions about how yet another

0:35.2

tragedy unfolded despite some warnings being sounded ahead of time.

0:40.3

For more on the latest developments we are joined by Chase McGee of Georgia

0:44.8

Public Broadcasting. Chase, thank you so much for being here. So the mother makes this

0:49.6

phone call, two school officials saying, please find my son. Do we know anything more about the

0:56.4

content of that call or what might have prompted it?

0:58.8

While we don't know much about the content of the phone call, We have some reports from her and her family,

1:05.1

the mother and her family, about what might have prompted it.

1:07.5

She says she received a message from her son

1:10.8

that concerned her to the point where she decided it would be best to call a school official.

1:15.2

While we don't know what was in the content, like I said, it obviously prompted them enough to take action

1:22.1

that a school administrator left to seek out the algebra class

1:26.2

where the suspected shooter was in however we know by the time that the school

1:31.9

administrator got to that classroom, the shooting started just minutes later.

1:36.2

And apparently there was some confusion because I take it he was new to the school and there was another student with a very similar name that might have caused some confusion.

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