The daddy of the 14-year-old accused of taking pictures and killing two lecturers and two college students was arrested in connection to the lethal Georgia faculty taking pictures that rocked the small neighborhood, investigators introduced Thursday night.
Teen suspect Colt Grey’s father, Colin, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of second-degree homicide, 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to youngsters, in keeping with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
It was unclear Thursday who was representing the Grays. Whereas investigators supplied few particulars concerning the father’s alleged position within the taking pictures, they acknowledged that the sheriff’s workplace visited the household residence in Jefferson, Georgia, in Might 2023 to reply to reviews that the then-13-year-old allegedly made threats to shoot up the native public center faculty on the social media app Discord. Colin Grey mentioned that his son “had some problems” at his earlier center faculty however that it had “gotten a lot better” since he modified colleges.
The daddy additionally instructed investigators throughout that go to that he had looking rifles in the home, including, “Colt is allowed to use them when supervised but does not have unfettered access to them.” As well as, the teenager denied making mass taking pictures threats on Discord, saying he “had never made any comments about shooting up a school or heard anyone talking about it.”
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Georgia companies present an replace on the Apalachee Excessive College taking pictures. (Fox Information Digital/ Mollie Markowitz)
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The director of the GBI, Chris Hosey, mentioned Thursday that this was a “difficult” time for the neighborhood. “You all have likely seen reports of incidents of other students making threats today at various schools around our state. In each of these incidents, police law enforcement took charges, and they made arrests, acted very swiftly as we take incidents like this very seriously across this state.”
Individuals attend a vigil at Jug Tavern Park following a taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive College in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage)
Hosey inspired the neighborhood to “come together and remain vigilant” within the wake of the lethal mass taking pictures.
“This is a time for all of us as a community and a state, to come together and remain vigilant,” he mentioned. “Students must be supported and encouraged here in this community and across the state to contact a member of their school faculty with any and all concerns of suspicious activity that they may see.”
“Local, state and federal law enforcement will continue to work together around the clock in relation to this incident here and any other incidents that come up around this state that raise concern for the safety of our students, faculty and citizens here in the State of Georgia.”
From left to proper: Math lecturers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie have been killed at Apalachee Excessive College in Winder, Georgia, together with Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, each 14, officers say. (Fox Information)
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith introduced that of the 9 injured, which included 2 lecturers and seven college students, all would make a full restoration.
Smith implored the viewers to “lift up our community.”
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“Please keep these children, these teachers,” he mentioned. “We call them teachers, but I call them heroes.”
