On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but they weren’t able to get to him fast enough because of an identification issue,

Records released Friday show a Georgia county’s emergency call center was overwhelmed by calls on Sept. 4 about a school shooting at Apalachee High School.

The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather.

The teen suspect was questioned last year about online threats, though nothing conclusive emerged. Many local police departments lack the resources to take deeper looks at suspicious actors.

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer The 14-year-old suspect in last week’s shooting at a Georgia high school kept his gun in his backpack and hid in the bathroom before the attack, […]