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.
Indeed teenagers were smarter then they knew right from wrong but now add weed tic tock ego and a few other useless thing and you have what we have now chaos.
Only time I’ve seen teens playing sports in the last 15 years is at schools.
Now parks are just for dogs.
Even if it does, the alleged shooter is 14 years old.
SCOTUS has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional for juveniles.
Thanks, I either did not know that or had forgotten it.
MENTAL FREAK AND I BET HE WAS ON SSRI’S,
MENTAL FREAK AND I BET HE WAS ON SSRI’S,
Shotgun Blues, he took himself a shot gun and disconnected his brain.
Is Larry Mondello, LUMPY?
DIVORCE WAS RARE.....AND MOST PARENTS WERE DECENT!
Where would the average 14 yr old get the means and opportunity to get such a rifle? Except by misusing one their parents own (unsecured) or stealing it from a relative or friends house?
Do we even know what specific gun it was?
GET OUT OF SEATTLE, STEVE!
We have KICKED GOD znd HIS SON, JESUS, out of our Country.....the VACUUM has bedn filled by SATAN!
Yeah …. Interesting what happens with that radar.
AMEN.
Gray was taken into custody just moments after he allegedly armed himself with an AR-style weapon and opened fire, authorities said.
He has been charged as an adult over the deaths of two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, as well as two teachers, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.
I have to admit I made that assumption. I know young thugs can buy a gun on the street, but my guess was that this wasn’t one of those cases. We already know that the father does (did?) own firearms.
What the question is and remains is was this kid on SSRI Medications, my guess is the answer is yes. Between the ages of 12 and 24 these medication in a small number of people can cause extreme mood swings, thoughts of suicide and the engagement of violent behavior.
Most every school shooting in the last 25 plus year it was found those kids were all on some sort of SSRI drugs and yet this is not addressed.
I just haven’t heard anyone say anything about the weapon.
That’s way too convenient to take at face value.
The link isn’t working either.
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