This is a gift link to the Live Updates page about this school shooting from The New York Times (I am a subscriber). I am sharing this here because I was gobsmacked reading the part that details the interview with the young man and his father regarding the Discord account. I am quoting it here since I have gifted (paid for) this article to be accessible to others.
Father of Georgia School Shooting Suspect Arrested and Charged: Live Updates
"The investigator was looking into
tips about a post made in a chat group on Discord, a social media site, about a potential school shooting. The post, which had been reported to the F.B.I., was linked by investigators to the account associated with Mr. Gray’s son.
Mr. Gray said in a follow-up phone call with an investigator that he didn’t know much about Discord, and that he had asked his son to “dumb this down for me.” His son had told him about people called “raiders” who could break into other people’s Discord accounts, he said. “They can make it … basically say whatever they want to about you,” Mr. Gray said his son had explained.
The son told the investigator that he had not used Discord in months and was only on TikTok to watch videos. The investigator ended one interview by telling the teenager, who had just finished seventh grade, to focus on getting good grades. “It’ll set you up for the rest of your life,” he said.
In a follow-up phone call with Mr. Gray, an investigator told him he wasn’t sure they would be able to get to the bottom of who had made the post on Discord. He assured the father he didn’t think his son was being dishonest, and encouraged him to make sure his son’s identity had not been stolen. Mr. Gray said his son was eager for the situation to be resolved. “He wants to know what happened,” he told the investigator."
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