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The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the suspicious ‘warning call’ that Apalachee High School reportedly received the morning of the shooting. From TGP: “New details have emerged from Wednesday’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, regarding a warning the school received prior to the gunman opening fire. Despite reportedly receiving a phone call stating that the high school would be the first of five targets, seemingly nothing was done to prevent the violence.” Now bombshell text messages have been released by the Washington Post, showing that the warning calls that were previously reported came from the shooter’s mother,...

Georgia school shooter Colt Gray was bullied by classmates who called him gay, his father told detectives in an interview last year. Colin Grey, 54, made the claims when he was interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff's office after the FBI received a tip that his son had threatened a shooting at his middle school. 'It was very difficult for him to go to school and not get picked on,' Colin Gray told an investigator, according to a transcript of the conversation obtained by DailyMail.com. The father added: 'It went from one thing to another... I was trying to get...

WINDER, Georgia — Colt Gray, the baby-face Georgia school shooting suspect who is charged with murdering two classmates and two teachers, grew up in a broken and neglectful home, which police and child services visited on a regular basis, a former neighbor and landlord tell The Post... Lauren Vickers, who lived next-door to the Grays in Jefferson, Georgia, said...“There were nights where the mom would lock him and his sister out the house. And they would be banging on the back door, just screaming like ‘Mom! mom! mom!’ ... Charles Polhamus said of Colt Gray, his grandson, in an interview...

The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people at his high school in the US state of Georgia has been arrested. Colin Gray, 54, was charged on Thursday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.... Officials are investigating whether the AR-style weapon used in the attack was a gift purchased by Mr Gray in December 2023, law enforcement sources told CBS News, the BBC's US partner. CNN reported that the weapon was a Christmas present to his son....

UPDATE: At least four people are reportedly dead, with approximately 30 injured, per CNN. As of 2:23 pm ET, CNN reports that nine people were transferred to hospitals with injuries and four are confirmed dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. One suspect is in custody. According to CNN, “The shooter who opened fire inside Apalachee High school is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source tells CNN. The source said it is not yet known whether the teen attended that school.” An active shooter situation at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, about 40 miles...

FBI Atlanta responded earlier today to Apalachee High School following reports of an active shooter. Throughout the day FBI personnel have been coordinating with and supporting local and state law enforcement. The FBI will dedicate all available resources, as requested, to seek justice and bring closure for the victims and their families. In May 2023, the FBI's National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time. The online threats contained photographs of guns. Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the...

A teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Barrow County was previously investigated for threats about a shooting, the FBI Atlanta office said late Wednesday. Colt Gray, 14, was charged with murder after Wednesday’s shooting, according to investigators. He was not charged after an investigation last year. In May 2023, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting, the FBI said in a statement. The threats didn’t identify a school or when it would happen, but they contained pictures of guns. Investigators tracked the post to...

The shooter who allegedly killed four people and wounded nine others at a Georgia high school on Wednesday has been identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, authorities said. Gray opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey told reporters Wednesday afternoon. The gunman surrendered to police as soon as he was confronted by a school resource officer, Hosey said. Hosey said the teen, who is a student at the school, would be charged with murder as an adult. The campus was crowded with law enforcement vehicles from multiple agencies...

Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about the Apalachee High School shooting from the campaign trail, pushing numerous gun controls before knowing the facts about the shooting. Harris addressed the issue by admitting, “We’re still gathering information about what happened…” She went on to say, “We have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all.” Harris then pushed for an “‘assault weapons’ ban and universal background checks and red flag laws.” She added, “It is a false choice to say you’re either for the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s...

At least four people are believed to have been killed and about 30 others injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in northern Georgia Wednesday morning, according to a report. A suspect – who is of student age – is in custody, the sources said. “I have directed all available state resources to respond to the incident at Apalachee High School and urge all Georgians to join my family in praying for the safety of those in our classrooms, both in Barrow County and across the state,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said. A neighbor of an Apalachee High School...

At least two people were killed and at least four were injured after gunfire erupted today at Apalachee High School in Georgia, according to preliminary information from law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation. The suspect is in custody, the Barrow County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp dispatched state resources to assist local authorities. Federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and ATF, are on the scene in Georgia to assist local authorities in the ongoing probe at Apalachee High School, a "devastated" Attorney General Merrick Garland said. "We are still gathering information but the...

18-year-old Andrea Ye, who goes by Alex, of Rockville, Maryland. On April 17, 2024, Ye was arrested following police learning about a 129-page manifesto. (Montgomery County Police Department/SkyTrak7) MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Formal indictments were filed against a Rockville, Maryland student accused in April of writing a manifesto that detailed a potential school shooting as the teen is expected to make another court appearance Friday. Friday's court appearance for Andrea Ye, known as Alex, is only to set a trial date for the 18-year-old, according to a Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office official. Ye's appearance, however, will bring him...

Two years after 19 fourth-graders and two teachers died, families and survivors also announce $2 million settlement with the city.. UVALDE, Texas— Families of children killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school here two years ago and survivors filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 91 state police officers and the local school district, calling their response the “single greatest failure of law enforcement to confront an active shooter in American history.” ... Uvalde attack and failures of responding law enforcement to stop the killing shocked the nation. A gunman killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers while nearly 400 officers...

The Uvalde, Texas, Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez, reportedly submitted his resignation to the city during a meeting Tuesday, which will be effective on April 6, according to reports. The Uvalde Leader-News reported that Rodriguez nor city administrators specified why the chief was resigning, though the decision comes just days after the city released a report clearing officers of any wrongdoing in the tragic shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. …

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- An Ohio student is being hailed a hero for helping thwart a school shooting that was allegedly plotted by his classmate at this high school in Ohio. The teen's dad says, despite threats on his son's life, his 15-year-old son did the right thing. "What was more important than his life was protecting his classmates and I could not be more proud of him. He's a hero for what he did," said Zach Swallen, the father of the teen who reported the threat. Swallen says his son, Boom, wasted no time earlier this week when he told...

he mother of a shooter who killed four students at a high school in Oxford, Mich., in 2021 was found guilty Tuesday on all charges of involuntary manslaughter. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, had pleaded not guilty to four involuntary manslaughter counts, and the jury found her guilty after 10 hours of deliberation, per CNN. Her son, Ethan Crumbley, was sentenced to life in prison in December after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.

Last week, 17-year-old student Dylan "DJ" Butler shot multiple people. He also killed a sixth-grade student before taking his own life. As Mia and Matt highlighted, Butler's social media posts pointed to an interest in the LGBT movement and identified as "gender fluid," using "he/they" pronouns. Now, more tragic but sadly not surprising details have come out, which is that he was known to authorities. Advertisement The Libs of TikTok X account shared coverage from the Daily Mail on Monday, which noted that Butler had been posting about the attack on the Discord social media site. "Butler posted a video...

The Department of Justice and FBI pride themselves on being the top federal agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes. Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations apparently stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant School earlier this year.On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.Even though the ambush bore several telltale signs of a hate crime,...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — All firearms have been banned on Michigan State University's campus and buildings, after the Board of Trustees voted Friday morning to close a loophole that allowed visitors to carry concealed firearms in public areas of campus. Currently, a Board of Trustee ordinances bans all student, staff, and faculty from carrying firearms on campus or in university buildings, regardless of whether they have a concealed pistol license, or CPL. An interpretation of the ordinance has allowed visitors to carry concealed firearms in public spaces on campus. Law enforcement and the Michigan State University Department of Police and...

Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday (May 3), the interior ministry said, as police arrested a teenage student suspected of carrying out the attack. The incident rocked the Balkan nation, where there has not been a school shooting of this magnitude in decades. The shooting occurred at 8:40am (06:40 GMT) at an elementary school in Belgrade's downtown Vracar district. "Eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and one schoolteacher were wounded," the interior ministry said.