The first image of accused Georgia school shooter Colt Gray has emerged – as a family member spoke about the 14-year-old’s troubled home life.
Illustration, published by 11 alive News, a 2022 yearbook photo shows a smiling Gray wearing a thick necklace and a red Georgia Bulldogs T-shirt, with the alleged gunman being 12 or 13 years old.
Gray was taken into custody minutes after he allegedly opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., killing two fellow students and two teachers, according to authorities.
Nine other people were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
His aunt, Annie Brown, told The Washington Post on Thursday that the boy was “begging for help from everyone around him.”
She said he was struggling with his mental health before the shooting.
“The adults around him failed him,” she lamented.
Brown, who lives in Florida, declined to elaborate on her nephew’s mental health struggles, but said she tried to get him help from afar.
The boy had a troubled home life which compounded his problems, she added.
Brown enrolled Gray at Hammon-Morris Middle School in Barrow County in January so he could finish eighth grade after a period of absence, she told The Washington Post.
He began ninth grade at Apalachi when classes resumed on August 1, a month before the shooting.
A teenager was investigated by the FBI in May 2023 regarding online school shooting threats, which included posts with photos of guns, the agency announced Wednesday.
Gray, then 13, was interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office at the time.
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