Mom of suspect in Georgia school shooting indicted and accused of taping parent to chair

FITZGERALD, Ga. -- The parent of a Georgia teen charged with fatally shooting 4 radical astatine his precocious school has been indicted successful transportation with an alleged home incidental past year.

The indictment handed down Monday charges Marcee Gray, 43, with exploiting an aged idiosyncratic and different crimes successful Ben Hill County, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. It appears unrelated to the schoolhouse shootings astatine Apalachee High School, which occurred successful a antithetic Georgia region astir 200 miles (320 kilometers) away.

Gray is the parent of 14-year-old Colt Gray, who was charged with execution aft surrendering to constabulary astatine the precocious schoolhouse connected Sept. 4. Authorities accidental the lad brought an assault-style firearm to schoolhouse successful his backpack and opened occurrence during greeting classes, sidesplitting 2 students and 2 teachers and injuring 9 others.

The indictment charging Marcee Gray stems from a home incidental precocious past year, the Atlanta paper reported. It said a constabulary incidental study states Gray's 74-year-old parent told authorities Nov. 4 that Gray had taken her phone, taped her to a seat and near her for astir a afloat day.

The incidental study said Gray bound her parent earlier traveling to Barrow County to face her ex-husband, who lived with their lad and 2 different children. The Atlanta paper said records amusement Gray was arrested successful Barrow County connected Nov. 6, 2 days aft her parent was recovered and was sentenced to 45 days successful jailhouse aft pleading blameworthy to charges of transgression trespassing, utilizing a licence sheet to disguise her car and causing spot damage.

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Messages near Saturday astatine imaginable telephone numbers for Gray were not instantly returned. It was not instantly known if she had an attorney.

Gray has said she called her son's precocious schoolhouse the greeting of the shootings to pass the unit aft Colt Gray sent her a substance connection saying, "I'm sorry." Days later, she issued a connection saying her lad "is not a monster."

The teenager's father, Colin Gray, has besides been charged with involuntary manslaughter, 2 counts of second-degree execution and 8 counts of cruelty to children. Authorities accidental helium gave his lad entree to the firearm utilized successful the shootings.

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