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.
When the police are watching your son and ask you to lock up your guns, you’s be a fool not to do so.
Have we heard that it was his father’s gun?
😉...............
Another case where the FBI dropped the ball. They knew about this kid and his threats for over a year.
Mentally Ill but the Left thinks Mentally Ill is normal
Ernest was sucking on a shotgun when it went off.
[What is a ‘hemmingway maneuver’?]
Ernest Hemmingway committed suicide with a shotgun in his mouth (or under the chin).
“The kid was suffering ... had nowhere else to go.”
Oh Pluhease, do you hear yourself?
I thought I heard an earlier report by a law enforcement lady saying “she” was in custody. I thought I heard wrong, but now I’m wondering, since he/he has serious issues to act as he/she did.
Did you omit a sarc tag?
Otherwise, have you lost your everlovin’ mind?
Hopefully they put this kid away forever but I hate to think the tax payers will have to foot the bill for the next 70 years. A noose would be cheaper and more effective in the long run.
I think most of these kids believe that they’re going to be ‘suicided by cop’ anyway - it’s probably part of the plan, as I can’t see how even a 14-year-old brain could avoid understanding that if he got away, he’d be found.
It didn’t work for this one, and he’s going to have a lifetime to think about that.
Additionally, the parents need to lose everything they have, and give it to the victims.
Going into a shcool and shooting up children is simply unacceptable, and the sentence sould reflect that to the point of deterrence.
Discord is a game service where people shoot each other all day long and trash talk each other. “I am going to kill you” there has probably been yelled and heard by this kid thousands upon thousands of times. Add to that no exercise, which probably lead to depression, and a dad who seems like a jerk, and we have this.
Granted there have been violent video games for decades. However, nothing like the ones now where it is real humans talking trash and hunting you down (or hunting them down) in real time and not just NPC characters running around.
He appeared to hunt down the special needs classroom from leaked videos. I suspect he had some serious mental health issues that got him in the class and likely on psychotropic drugs.
And golf clap to the FBI, father, and police department.
and dart fights...
Doesn’t Georgia still have the electric chair?
I saw a movie in ‘85 (remake of Bad Seed with David Carradine) where he told the psychopath little girl that there were pink and blue child size electric chairs for youthful killers. Sizzle Sizzle. Maybe he was joking?
Quite clearly.
Most traumatized children do not think about killing family members, they punish themselves, mistreat family pets, damage property, abuse other children, act up in school. If they are bullied in school and ignored by school authorities, they often go to survival mode and have no trouble finding a space to vent.
The public has been given a quick glimpse of his family life and what a few of his schoolmates had to say about him.
It appears you, however, may not be looking past the fact the shooter was a trigger-puller - "easy-peasy, end of case".
Discord is a voice, video, and text chat app.
A lot of gamers use it, but it is not a game service, as far as I know.
if he gets sentence to life in prison with no chance for parole?
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IMO, he took lives via the gun so he should lose his life
at and appointed time via the legal/criminal process. He’ll
be locked up on tax payers expense until that time. The
death penalty should be used to its fullest in this case.
I don’t think anyone is going to execute a 14 year old kid - especially if there was abuse in his background, as apparently has been suggested.
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