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Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspected shooter, 14-year-old
Colt Gray, said she told the counselor to find her son
immediately, the newspaper reported. Phone records provided by a
relative to the Post show a 10-minute call to Apalachee High
School in Winder, Georgia, at 9:50 a.m., about 30 minutes before
the attack began.
Gray declined to detail what prompted her call but told the Post
on Saturday she had shared that with law enforcement. She
expressed remorse for the "pain and suffering" that the victims
and their families are going through.
A school administrator went to her son's math class that
morning, according to another student, the Post reported, but he
was not in the room.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the lead investigative
agency, referred questions to the Piedmont Judicial Circuit
District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case. The
office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
Sunday.
Colt Gray has been charged as an adult with four counts of
murder. His father, Colin Gray, is also charged with murder,
involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children, in an emerging
legal strategy to hold parents responsible for allowing access
to firearms to minors who carry out attacks.
Prosecutors say Colin Gray provided the weapon used in the
shooting.
In May 2023, investigators from a neighboring county interviewed
both Colin and Colt Gray about online threats to carry out a
school shooting. Colt Gray said he had not made the threats, and
his father said his son did not have free access to his hunting
rifles.
The case was closed after investigators could not substantiate
that either Gray was connected to the threats.
(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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