Father of suspect in Georgia school shooting arrested

GBI Director Chris Hosey said in a news conference on Thursday evening that the charges against the father stem from "knowingly allowing his son to possess a weapon".

He said agents would "work tirelessly to complete this investigation as we move forward", but declined to answer questions about how the child acquired the gun.

The father was arrested by the GBI in co-ordination with Jackson County District Attorney Brad Smith, and was being held in custody, officials said.

Authorities are investigating whether the AR-style weapon used in the attack was a gift purchased by Mr Gray in December 2023, law enforcement sources told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

In May 2023, the FBI alerted local police to online threats about a school shooting, associated with an email address linked to the suspect.

A sheriff's deputy went to interview the boy, who was 13 at the time.

His father told police he had guns in the house, but his son did not have unsupervised access to them, the FBI said in a statement on Wednesday.

Officials say the threats were made on Discord, a social media platform popular with video gamers, and contained images of guns.