The mother of the Georgia teenager accused of killing four people at his high school says she warned school administrators before the shooting.
Marcee Gray told relatives she had notified a school counselor about 30 minutes before her 14-year-old son, Colt Gray, allegedly shot and killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School, the Washington Post reported.
“I was the one who notified the high school guidance counselor,” she texted her sister, Annie Brown, according to screenshots obtained by The Post. “I told them it was an extreme emergency and to go immediately and find [my son] to control him.”
Marcee Gray confirmed to The Post that she contacted the school.
“I am so, so sorry and cannot understand the pain and suffering they are going through right now,” she wrote to The Post.
Students said an administrator went into Colt Gray’s math class after the alarm but he wasn’t there. The administrator allegedly asked about a student with a similar name and took that student’s backpack from the room.
Minutes later, Gray opened fireaccording to authorities, killed 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.
Barrow County Sheriff’s Office
Colt Grey
Police responded within minutes and arrested Gray, who surrendered without incident. He made his first court appearance on Friday but did not enter a plea.
Grey’s father, Colin Gray, was also charged with second-degree murder for buying his son the assault rifle he used in the shooting, according to police. The Gray parents separated in 2023, with Colt living with his father while his two younger siblings lived with their mother.
A neighbor described Colt’s home life as “absolutely awful”, and at least one student said he fit the stereotype of a school shooter.
Investigators learned that Gray was interested in previous school shootings, including the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Mass.
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