Fourteen-year-old Colt Gray will be charged with murder and tried as an adult after police say he killed four people and wounded nearly 30 others at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia Wednesday.
The boy was already on law enforcement radar since May of last year when he and his father were interviewed by authorities after the FBI received anonymous tips from fellow gamers that the boy threatened to commit a school shooting. Gray denied it. Although his father admitted to having hunting rifles in the home, he said his son did not have unsupervised access to the weapons. No probable cause was found and no arrest was made.
Authorities identified the fatalities as two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermehorn and Christian Angulo, and two teachers, Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie.
Student Lyela Sayarath said the shooter, who rarely spoke and sometimes skipped school, left her algebra class and then tried to get back in.
“I saw students go back to open the door for him. And they backed away. I’m guessing they saw something, but for some reason, they didn’t open the door. And I could see him kind of turn to the side, like what would have been my
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