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(NewsNation) — More than a twelvemonth earlier Colt Gray allegedly shot and killed 4 people astatine Apalachee High School successful Georgia, his begetter told sheriff's deputies helium would region guns from the location if helium recovered retired his lad was making threats online.
In assemblage camera footage obtained by NewsNation, Colin Gray told section sheriff's deputies past twelvemonth that the teen understood the seriousness of making threats of schoolhouse weapon violence.
Colin Gray told Jackson County deputies that helium volition beryllium “mad arsenic hell” if allegations that his lad made online threats of utilizing a weapon to harm radical astatine his schoolhouse were true.
“I’m going to beryllium huffy arsenic hellhole if helium did (make threats) and past each the guns volition spell distant and past they won’t beryllium accessible,” Colin Gray told deputies.
The interrogation with deputies took spot successful May 2023, much than 15 months earlier the shooting astatine Apalachee High School.
Colt Gray, 14, is accused of shooting and sidesplitting 2 students and 2 teachers astatine the Winder, Georgia, school. Nine others were injured.
In the interview, Colin Gray tells deputies that helium and his lad had started cervid hunting the erstwhile fall, but that Colt understood the seriousness of utilizing guns successful inappropriate ways.
“I instrumentality (school weapon violence) precise superior and truthful does he,” Colin Gray told deputies successful 2023 successful the assemblage camera footage, adding, “He knows however to usage (guns) and however not to usage them.”
People stitchery astatine the flagpole extracurricular the entranceway to Apalachee High School connected Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 successful Winder, Ga., a time aft deadly shootings astatine the school. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)The interrogation took spot extracurricular the location Colin and Colt Gray were surviving aft Colin and Colt's parent separated. Colin told deputies his lad had struggled with the split.
He besides said Colt had been bullied astatine schoolhouse but denied proceeding astir immoderate threats of weapon unit astatine the mediate schoolhouse that were linked to his son.
Colin Gray past told deputies that his lad “doesn’t truly deliberation straight” erstwhile helium gets flustered oregon feels nether pressure. He said helium has visited the school’s main respective times to guarantee that his lad was O.K. portion dealing with his parents’ marital situation.
He besides told officers that helium and Colt sermon the problems with schoolhouse weapon unit and “all the schoolhouse shootings” constantly. Before deputies spoke to Colt Gray, his begetter asked deputies to instill the seriousness of the allegations being made.
In speaking with deputies, Colt Gray denied making the threats claiming his Discord relationship was hacked.
He acknowledged helium was bullied by students aft switching schools mid-year and besides told sheriff’s deputies that helium 1 time hoped to enactment arsenic a philosopher.
Colin Gray told deputies that his lad kept a photograph of himself with humor connected his look and shooting his archetypal cervid connected his phone.
Before the interrogation with sheriff’s deputies ended, Colin Gray told the officers that helium and his lad would beryllium having “a agelong conversation” astir the allegations.
NewsNation has antecedently reported that both besides met with the FBI implicit the alleged threats.
According to aggregate media reports, Colin Gray purchased the AR-15-style limb for his lad for Christmas successful 2023.
Colt Gray volition beryllium charged arsenic an big and faces 4 counts of felony murder for the deaths of the deaths of 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.
Each number carries a maximum imaginable condemnation of decease oregon beingness successful prison, Judge Currie Mingledorff said. But due to the fact that the alleged shooter is younger than 17, helium won’t look the decease penalty.
Colin Gray faces involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, and cruelty to children charges. Both stay successful custody aft they each appeared successful tribunal past week.
