Aunt of Georgia Shooting Suspect Says Mother Called School to Warn of Emergency

Published on September 8, 2024

The mother of the teenager who was charged with murder in the shooting deaths of four people at Apalachee High School in Georgie last week called the school before the killings, according to his aunt. Annie Brown, the aunt, told The Washington Post that her sister, the mother of the shooter, had texted her saying she spoke with a school counselor and urged them to “immediately” find her son to check on him and that there was an “extreme emergency” involving her son. Brown provided screen shots of the text exchange to the newspaper, which also reported that a call log from the family’s shared phone plan showed a call was made to the school about 30 minutes before the shooting started....