Colt Gray, Winder, Apalachee, Georgia gunman, 14, shot up school with AR-15 rifle his dad, Colin bought him for Xmas, just months after the FBI investigating allegations of the teen plotting a mass school shooting. Revelations come as dad is arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter and second degree murder.
Colt Gray the 14 year old Georgia gunman who shot up his school, killing four and wounding many others, did so with an AR-15 styled rifle his dad gave him for Christmas, months earlier.
The 14-year-old was arrested on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, minutes after authorities say he opened fire on students and teachers. The boy surrendered to resource officers after they found him inside the school, where by then he had inflicted his carnage.
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During questioning, the teen’s father, Colin Gray told authorities that he bought the gun for the teen himself as a Christmas gift. Colin Gray has yet to make any public comment following the shooting.
Previous social media posts from the man’s wife, Marcee Gray described Colin Gray as a consistent domestic abuser against his wife, who after 14 years of marriage eventually left her husband.
The purchase of the high velocity assault weapon comes just months after father and son were interviewed by the FBI in May of 2023 in connection to purported online threats about carrying out a school shooting appearing on the gaming social-media platform Discord, according to investigators.
Both Grays told investigators they had not made the threats. The father also told officials that he had hunting guns locked in a safe in the house and his son did not have access to them.
Investigators from the Jackson County sheriff’s department interviewed the Grays in May 2023 after receiving a tip from the FBI about a threat posted in a Discord channel. Both Grays told investigators they had no connection to the Discord account on which the threats were made.
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The Discord account had a user name written in Russian, and the translation of the letters spelled out the name Lanza, referencing Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy, officers said.
Gray denied he was the author of the threats, telling police he’d shut down his Discord after being repeatedly hacked. He expressed concerns that someone would make those accusations about him.
According to the nytimes, Gray’s father Colin told investigators at the time that his son ‘knows the seriousness of weapons and what they can do, and how to use them and not use them.’
Colin reportedly assured officers that he would be ‘mad as hell’ if he learned the allegations about his son making threats were true, and that ‘all the guns [would] go away.’
The revelation comes on the heels of investigators, Thursday evening, arresting the teen’s father, and charging Colin Gray with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, 2 counts of second degree murder and 8 counts of cruelty to children.
Investigators on Thursday were able to uncover a Discord account belonging to the teen which documented the teen’s obsession with other mass school shooters, whom Gray seemingly idolized.
But there was more to come.
Online, his aunt vowed ‘full throttle blood’ as she claimed the teen had been subjected to ‘abuse’ his entire life. Those comments (see here) were deleted last night after a barrage of backlash.
The sheriff’s investigators closed the case after being unable to substantiate that either Gray was connected to the Discord account, and did not find grounds to seek the needed court order to confiscate the family’s guns, according to police reports released by the sheriff’s office on Thursday.
Come Thursday, the 14 year old teen gunman was charged with four counts of first degree felony murder along with a myriad of charges. He is remanded to appear in court on Friday.
No known motive to the killings was immediately known.
