Posted on 09/05/2024 11:48:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
A horrifying tragedy struck Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, leaving four people dead and approximately 30 others injured in a mass shooting.
The shooter, identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, a student at the school, was apprehended by law enforcement shortly after the incident.
The violence erupted around 10:30 a.m., just 40 miles northeast of Atlanta, and sent shockwaves through the nation.
According to reports from CNN and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), nine of the injured were rushed to local hospitals for emergency treatment.
Tragically, four individuals—two students and two teachers—were pronounced dead at the scene.
Gray, who surrendered without resistance to a school resource officer, is now in custody.
GBI Director Chris Hosey confirmed that Gray will be tried as an adult for his heinous crimes.
According to the Daily Mail, Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of felony murder, and the GBI has stated that “additional charges are expected.
Now, the picture of Colt Gray has been released to the public.
What has shaken the public even more is the revelation that Colt Gray harbored an “obsession” with infamous school shootings, according to the New York Times.
According to investigators, a search of Gray’s home uncovered disturbing evidence linking the young boy to the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed.
Authorities also discovered that Gray had been involved in a May 2023 incident in which police questioned both him and his father about threatening comments made on a Discord channel.
The channel, which had a Russian username that translated to “Lanza” — a nod to Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza — reportedly included threats of a future school shooting. Gray, however, denied responsibility, claiming his account had been hacked.
Daily Mail reported:
Police previously asked teen gunman’s dad to keep his firearms locked away
Colt Gray, 14, as interviewed in May 2023 by a sheriff’s investigator from nearby Jackson County who received a tip from the FBI that the boy, then 13, ‘had possibly threatened to shoot up a middle school tomorrow.’
The tip came to the FBI from people in Australia and California who were concerned about comments made by a chat group user on the social media platform Discord.
The investigator urged the boy’s father to keep his firearms locked away and told him to keep his son out of school ‘until this matter could be resolved.’
The boy’s last day before the summer break was a few days before that conversation.
His family has since remained mostly silent in the wake of the mass shooting, although his aunt made an inflammatory online comment, claiming Gray had suffered “a lifetime of abuse.” That post was later deleted after a torrent of criticism.
The FBI has confirmed that the 14-year-old Apalachee High School shooter, Colt Gray, a student at the Georgia school, was known to the agency as early as May 2023 after receiving “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time.”
This comes after we learned that an unidentified individual also warned the high school via phone that it would be the first of five schools targeted with violence prior to the shooting on Wednesday.
Despite these warnings and red flags, it appears authorities were unable to prevent the senseless attack. Gray is expected to appear in court on Friday, where he will officially be charged as an adult.
This is a developing story.
we all had guns at this age and younger when I was growing up in the 60’s-70’s, we were NOT shooting each other!
Another one “on the FBI’s radar”.
Well, this one will not go away until after the election. The media will not round file this one. I am curious though because I saw an article last night which depicted Mason as the murderer, Colt Gray. I know it because as soon as I saw it I told my wife, “well, this story will be dumped in three days.” Somone is going to get sued over that.
Me too...................
Don’t be so sure. It shows how inept our agencies are.
We already know more about him than Trump’s assassin.
Apparently a broken home.
Can confirm the 60's-70's experience. Well...except for the occasional BB gun shootout...
+1
Need to reopen the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s.
A teen making such statements back in the 1950s or ‘60s would have been locked up for “Observation” before they could go on their rampage.
If you look earlier than the 1970s you will see very few mass shootings even though semi-auto firearms have been around since 1903. That is 121 years ago.
I can think of three off hand...
Howard Unruh, in New Jersey using a Luger pistol.
Richard Speck killed 8 student nurses. No guns involved.
Charles Whitman, in the Texas Tower using a bolt action hunting rifle.
Carried my rifle through the school because the range was in the basement.
Product of this age.
Yesterday’s Larry Mondello becomes today’s mass shooter.
He is a product of clueless parenting and an information age where the messaging makes no distinction between good and evil.
Same. Over the fireplaces, next to the beds, sometimes on the school bus...we raised hell, but not when we had our rifles. And shooting people wasn't even a thought.
I guess there are a couple of historical incidents, but kids were a lot more normal back then.
I wonder if the sick little jerk will be grinning like that if he gets sentence to life in prison with no chance for parole?
Quite a picture. It could just as well be of a slightly overweight 14-year-old girl. Any trans problems here??
There is no such thing as life without parole. At some point they will all be released because the gravity of the crime diminishes over many years. They all get a chance at freedom, despite the fact their victims never do. Just look at the Manson crew.
But then, "we" didn't spend our formative years and literally all of our pre-adult lives living in and trying to understand an emotional nightmare of an environment, as seems the likely case of this 14 year old.
Add to that what could have been an equally difficult time in what may have been for him an abusive school environment, i.e., substantially everything else in his life.
The kid was suffering, full of fight and had nowhere else to go.
There is a lot to be said about enforcing drug laws and providing well supervised schools. - but the Left will seize this chaotic circumstance solely for its anti-gun value.
Looks kinda like Danny Bonaduce from the Partridge Family 60’s TV show..........
“But we must do SOMEthing!” liberal/dems/commies always say immediately after these events.
How about we try this?: a total media blackout of the event. We know that copycat killings often ensue. So, if there is absolutely no news on the event there will be no copycats (at least outside the immediate area).
You might think this won’t work . . . BUT we have to try SOMEthing. If it saves just one life, it’s worth it. 1st amendment problems? The Constitution never anticipated anything but paper and ink handouts. Besides, it’s only a “slight intrusion” on the 1st Amendment.
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