Georgia Shooter Researched 2018 Parkland Massacre

The New York Times reports:

Documentation obtained by The New York Times shows that, in 2022, the boy’s father had owned the type of military-style rifle that officials say was used in the deadly attack. Police also found recent evidence that the suspect was interested in mass shootings, particularly the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation.

When the suspect’s family was evicted from their Jackson County home in 2022, sheriff’s deputies removed several weapons, including a black AR-15 rifle with a scope — the type of weapon used in Wednesday’s school shooting — as well as boxes of ammunition, records showed. All of the weapons, which also included handguns and bows, were marked as “released to owner.”

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