The mother of an Apalachee High School shooting suspect told a family member that she called the school that morning to warn of an “extreme emergency,” according to a report.
Marcy Gray, mother of 14-year-old shooting Doubtful Colt Greytexted his sister after the Sept. 4 shooting in Georgia unfolded.
“I was the one who reported the school counselor in high school,” Marcy Gray wrote to Annie Brown, the teen’s suspicious aunt, according to a screenshot seen by The Washington Post. “I told them that it was an emergency and that they should go and search immediately [my son] to investigate it.”
Brown told the Post that her sister learned of the information about her son and called the school, fearing an “impending disaster.” The aunt said she did not know specifically what the suspect’s mother had learned.
The aunt confirmed the report in text messages to The Associated Press on Saturday but declined to comment further.
The Post reported that call logs from the family’s shared phone plan indicated a 10-minute call from Marcy Gray to the school beginning at 9:50 a.m.
According to the Post, witnesses claimed it was half an hour before the teenager opened fire.
Two students and two teachers Died in the firing. They were identified as 14-year-old Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, 39-year-old Richard Aspinwall and 53-year-old Christina Irimi.
Nine other people — eight students and one teacher — were injured, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
In an earlier interview, Brown, who lives in Central Florida, told the Post that her nephew had been “begging for help from everyone around him” for months and that “the adults around him failed him.”
Screenshots obtained by the Post also show Brown sent a text saying his mother, the suspect’s grandmother, met with a school counselor to get help.
A week before the shooting, the grandmother sent a text that Colt Gray “starts with the therapist tomorrow.”
Marcy Gray pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges in December and was ordered to have no contact. her husband, Colin Gray, the Post reported, citing Barrow County Superior Court records.
Colin Gray, the alleged shooter’s father, was arrested Thursday on two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children for allegedly knowingly allowing his son Colt to possess the weapon. The juvenile has been charged with four counts of felony murder as an adult.
Colin Gray told investigators in May 2023 that his son was struggling with his parents’ separation and had been bullied at school.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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