The mother of a student in class with the boy accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting says information that school officials were warned that the boy was having a crisis shows the shooting could have been prevented.
"The school failed them, that they could have prevented these deaths and they didn't," Rabecca Sayarath said Sunday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I truly, truly feel that way."
Sayarath's daughter, Lyela, told reporters on Wednesday, the day of the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that administrators appeared to be looking for Colt Gray, the 14-year-old who has been charged with four counts of murder, before the gunfire began.
Others, though, are declining to blame school or law enforcement officials.
"I'm not going to referee or second-guess what happened with the authorities the other night," U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "I applaud our first responders. When others are running away from danger, they run toward the danger in order to do the best they can."
