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The Georgia teenager who killed four people and wounded nine others in a shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday was interested in prior school shootings, according to multiple reports.
Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student of the school, was arrested at the scene northeast of Atlanta and later charged with four counts of murder. Additional charges are expected.
His first court appearance is scheduled for Friday.
Gray was allegedly “obsessed” with the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., where former student Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others, sources told the New York Times.
In May 2023, authorities in Jackson County, Ga., investigated Gray after receiving a tip that he made threats online about shooting up a middle school. Gray, 13 at the time, denied making the threats, and his father said he knew nothing about them.
The threats came from a Discord account with a Russian username. According to an incident report obtained by Atlanta’s WSB-TV, “translation of the Russian letters spells out the name Lanza, referring to Adam Lanza,” the 20-year-old man who killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.
On Wednesday, the FBI and the local sheriff’s office said they hadn’t compiled enough evidence to arrest Gray or his father at the time, only issuing a warning to local schools for “continued monitoring” of the teen.
However, Discord representatives told TMZ on Thursday that Gray’s account was banned that May, six weeks after it was created in early April 2023, for violating the platform’s anti-extremism policy.
“Discord’s Safety Team immediately responded to law enforcement,” handed over information related to the investigation into the threats and removed the account, a rep told the outlet. The company said it had no record of Gray using the platform between then and Wednesday’s shooting.
Students at Apalachee High who were interviewed on Wednesday told reporters Gray fit the stereotype of a school shooter and often skipped school. Authorities said Wednesday was Gray’s second day attending school, even though the year began on Aug. 1.
“He skips usually, so you never really know where he’s going,” Lyela Sayarath told CNN, describing how Gray walked out of their math class before attempting to return with a firearm. The door had automatically locked behind him, she said, so he opened fire in the classroom next door.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said officers located Gray “five or six minutes” after the call for help went out. Gray complied with the officers’ commands immediately and was taken into custody.
“It was carnage. There was blood everywhere,” Smith told NBC News in an interview. “You could smell the gunpowder. Lotta screaming, yelling. Little bit of chaos.”
Students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were identified Thursday as the victims. Aspinwall was also the defensive coordinator for the school’s football team, which canceled a game scheduled for Friday.
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“Constant abuse … adults around him failed him” #Georgia #SchoolShooting suspect #ColtGray grew up in broken & neglectful home visited by police & child services. Mom = drug & domestic violence arrests. Dad allegedly bought Colt #AR15 used in shooting. https://t.co/Fv7yYwYlJL
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Who is Colt Gray, the accused Georgia school shooter?
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Police have released the mug shot for Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray — as his aunt said the 14-year-old was “begging for help” prior to the shooting.
The mug shot shows baby-face Gray with long dyed hair and a blank stare.
The first pictures of Gray emerged on Thursday, with one showing him in his 2022 yearbook — smiling and wearing a thick necklace and a red Georgia Bulldogs T-shirt. The alleged gunman would have been age 12 or 13.
Gray was taken into custody Wednesday minutes after he allegedly opened fire in Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., killing two fellow students and two teachers, according to authorities.
Nine others were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
His aunt, Annie Brown, told the Washington Post on Thursday that the boy had been “begging for help from everybody around him.”
She said he had been struggling with his mental health prior to the shooting.
Chilling video shows Georgia school shooter’s gun on the floor after hallway bloodbath
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“The adults around him failed him,” she lamented.
Brown, who lives in Florida, declined to elaborate on her nephew’s mental health struggles, but said she tried to get him help from a distance.
The boy had a troubled home life that exacerbated his issues, she added.
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Brown enrolled Gray at Haymon-Morris Middle School in Barrow County in January, so that he could finish the eighth grade following a period of absenteeism, she told the Washington Post.
He started ninth grade at Apalachee when classes resumed on Aug. 1, just over a month before the shooting.
The teen was investigated by the FBI in May 2023 over online school shooting threats, which included posts with photos of guns, the agency revealed Wednesday.
Gray, then 13, and his father were interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office at the time.
#BREAKING : Latest pic of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, 14, officially charged with 4 counts of felony murder.#ApalacheeHighSchool #Shooting #ActiveShooter #BarrowCounty #Georgia #winder #ApalacheeHighSchoolShooting #SchoolShooting #ColtGray pic.twitter.com/Y5WD6D41Oa
— upuknews (@upuknews1) September 6, 2024
MUGSHOT‼️#COLTGRAY‘S DAD HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
Apalachee High School shooter’s dad #ColinGray charged 4 counts Involuntary Manslaughter, 2 counts 2nd Degree Murder, 8 counts Cruelty to Children.
He knowingly allowed his son, Colt to have the weapon!#MassShooting #GunViolence pic.twitter.com/zxDMenxuex
— The Last Show- Karen Lee (@thelastshow) September 6, 2024
A NEWS BOOM! The #ColtGray father, #ColinGray, 54, was arrested on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation today.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) confirmed… pic.twitter.com/8CWKeErkOu— Ms_Harmony ツ (@Ms_Harmony58) September 6, 2024
The reason they are all trans lately is because they are told to be whatever they want, in turn they are bullied tirelessly. This needs to stop… The left is radicalizing our children.#schoolshoting #ColtGray pic.twitter.com/hYSRLubQzn
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