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(NewsNation) — The teenager charged with opening occurrence Wednesday astatine a Georgia precocious school, sidesplitting 2 teachers and 2 students, volition marque his archetypal tribunal quality Friday.
Colt Gray, 14, is charged arsenic an big with 4 counts of felony execution successful transportation with a shooting astatine Apalachee High School, astir 50 miles from Atlanta.
Gray is expected to marque a virtual tribunal quality astatine 8:30 a.m. ET for an arraignment. Cases vary, but the proceeding mostly involves prosecutors speechmaking the charges into the authoritative record. A justice whitethorn besides inquire the idiosyncratic facing charges to participate an archetypal plea astatine that time.
The tribunal quality comes hours aft the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced charges against the suspected shooter’s 54-year-old begetter Colin Gray. He faces 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, 2 counts of second-degree execution and 8 counts of cruelty to children.
Investigators haven’t gone into item astir charges beyond saying they’re straight connected with his son’s actions and allegedly allowing him to person a weapon.
Police successful Georgia spent overmuch of Thursday questioning the teenager, but it wasn’t their archetypal clip speaking with him.
The teen denied threatening to transportation retired a schoolhouse shooting erstwhile authorities interviewed him past twelvemonth astir a reported menace made connected the messaging level Discord, according to a sheriff’s study obtained by The Associated Press.
The FBI said it received respective anonymous tips past May astir online threats — including photos of guns.
The boy’s begetter besides told investigators helium had hunting guns successful their location but said his lad didn't person unfettered entree to them.
Meanwhile, tribunal records amusement the boy’s mother, who is not charged successful transportation with the shooting, whitethorn beryllium barred from contacting Colin Gray, her estranged husband, unless done a 3rd party. The stipulation was a information of the mother’s probation stemming from an unrelated December charge.
Outside the school, there’s a increasing memorial.
"I heard the banging, I heard the gunshots, and I heard the police, and I heard the sirens,” a elder pupil told NewsNation.
"When helium walked retired of the class, helium did spot a assemblage connected the level and helium assumed that that was the shooter that was killed by the cop, but seemingly that's not the case,” her begetter said.
A caller information strategy installed past week whitethorn person prevented further tragedy.
A peculiar badge with a panic fastener worn by unit astatine the schoolhouse allowed teachers to discreetly petition exigency assistance successful their nonstop location.
