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Authorities on Thursday confirmed that Colt Gray’s father Colin Gray, who is the suspect in the shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday, has been taken into custody and is being housed at the Barrow County Detention Centre.
Following his arrest on Thursday, 14 year old Colin Gray is currently being held, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children in relation to the Wednesday morning mass shooting at the Barrow County school where his 14-year-old son Colt Gray was a student.
In addition, the younger Gray is accused of killing two teachers and two students by firing guns. It is anticipated that the nine further victims of the shooting will fully recover.
Who is Colin Gray father of Apalachee High School, Georgia shooting shooter Colt Gray, bio, age, race, family and wife
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Colin Gray, the father of school shooter Colt Gray, has been arrested in connection for the tragedy at Apalachee High School.
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A Discord account linked to possible violence at a school featured threats last year, prompting local officials to interview the father and son. But there was no hard proof connecting them to the dangers. Although the father-maintained hunting rifles in the house, he denied his son unsupervised access to them.
“This case was worked, and at the time the boy was 13, and it wasn’t enough to substantiate,” explained Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum. “If we get a judge’s order or we charge somebody, we take firearms for safekeeping.”
Colt Gray was taken into custody shortly after the police broke into the school. He is charged with firing shots from an AR-15 weapon that the police claim was used to kill math professors Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie, as well as 14-year-olds Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn.
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Law enforcement officials claim that 54-year-old Colin Gray bought the AR-style gun used in the December shooting as a Christmas present for his son. Colt Gray was also investigated as a suspect last year, police reported shortly after the Apalachee High shooting, after he posted threatening statements on social media that targeted a Jackson County school.
The gun used in the Barrow shooting, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, was delivered to Colt Gray’s father a few months after the Grays were questioned by Jackson sheriff’s investigators in 2023. At the time, investigators decided there was insufficient evidence to pursue charges, therefore they decided not to.
His wife Marcee, 43, has a lengthy rap sheet with drug and domestic violence arrests and the two had three children together. Colin and his family were all white Americans.
Grayโs maternal grandfather told CNN, โHis dad beat up on him, I mean, Iโm not talking about physical, but screaming and hollering, and he did the same thing to my daughter,โ
Marcee, who attended Georgia Southern University and listed her profession on LinkedIn as a โquality engineerโ at a local manufacturer, has a lengthy criminal history spanning 17 years and four Georgia counties. Colin meanwhile works in construction.