Last Updated on 05/09/2024 by Arun jain
No classmate Georgia school shooter Colt Gray said she sat next to the 14-year-old before his gruesome murder, saying that at one point she He left the classroom and tried to re-enter with the gun.
said Laila Sayarath, a junior at Apalachee High School CNN After Kay Gray left her Algebra I class Wednesday morning, she knocked on a locked door to get back inside.
Another student who approached the door “saw he had a gun, so she backed away,” Sayarath added. Gray then “turns to the classroom to my right, and he just starts shooting, and you hear ten to fifteen rounds back and forth.”
Sayarath said he and others in his class turned off the lights and hid behind desks after hearing gunshots.
“When we heard that, most people just fell on the floor and crawled into an area, like, piled on top of each other,” she said. “The teacher turned off the lights, but we all huddled together, and I pushed the desks in front of us. I was just telling people, ‘Put the desk in front of you, block in front of you, get low’—things like that.
Sayarath described Gray as “calm” and said she was not surprised he was the shooter.
“He never really talked. He was very quiet,” she said. “He wasn’t even there most of the time. He didn’t just come to school or just skip class, but even when he did talk it was one word answers and short statements.”
Four people—two 14-year-old students and two teachers—were shot and killed and nine others wounded in the incident at Apalachee High School, officials confirmed. Gray survived, and was soon taken into custody. He is expected to be charged with murder and tried as an adult.
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