Authorities in Georgia have launched the bodycam footage of the Could 2023 interview with Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies and the alleged Apalachee Excessive Faculty shooter and his father.
Jackson County, Georgia, sheriff’s officers spoke face-to-face with the boy who’s now charged with felony homicide within the deaths of 4 at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Winder. The general public defender representing each Colin and Colt Grey didn’t return Fox Information’ request for remark.
The footage reveals the sheriff’s officers’ interactions from Could 21, 2023, when suspect Colt Grey was 13 years previous, after being tipped off by the FBI a couple of risk on the messaging app Discord, in style with some video players, to shoot up a center college.
Police may be seen knocking on the house of Grey and are greeted by a startled Colin Grey, who’s in his underwear and a t-shirt.
Colin Grey, the daddy of Apalachee Excessive Faculty taking pictures suspect Colt Grey, speaks to police in Georgia in Could 2023. (Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace)
The officers clarify that they’re following a grievance, including that they went to his previous deal with first, and Colin asks if he can dress earlier than they begin the interview.
Colin then reappears wearing garments, apologizes for the delay, and says he was watching a golf event as he opens a drink and police ask him if he has a son.
Because the officers proceed to elucidate the rationale for his or her go to and ask Colin about his son, he warns that Colt goes to get “all red-face” once they query him.
When the police start questioning Colin, he shared extra about Grey’s dwelling life and the accusation, saying this go to was “bulls—” and a terrorist risk.
“He’s going through a lot…very difficult for him to go to school and not get picked on,” Colin defined. “[Colt’s] gone through a lot.”
Colin stays calm whereas explaining Colt’s historical past to the officers and shares that he has had a tough time. He provides that he and Colt’s mother acquired divorced and that that they had been evicted.
“He struggled at first with the separation. I’ve been taking him to school. He goes to Jefferson Middle school. He’s been doing really good,” Colin defined.
The officer acknowledges the severity of the go to and Colin agrees and says that Colt “knows how serious it is, trust me.”
“[Colt] just wants us to have a simple life. All that like, he should be excited about getting into 8th grade. It just was very difficult for him to go to school and not get picked on by, you know, it went from one thing to another to, you know, he was talking to the couple friends he has,” stated Grey.
Colin Grey informed authorities that weapons have been accessible in his dwelling, however weren’t loaded. (Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Colin claims he is been as much as the college a number of occasions, blames it on different children touching his son and says Colt needed to maneuver out of the college district.
Colin then claims he retains getting picked on and talks concerning the significance of gun security.
“Let me ask you this – do you have any weapons in the house?” the officer asks.
“I do,” Colin says.
“Are they accessible,” the officer then asks.
Colt Grey, charged as an grownup with 4 counts of homicide, sits within the Barrow County courthouse throughout his first look on Friday, Sept. 6, following the Apalachee Excessive Faculty taking pictures in Winder, Ga. (AP Picture/Brynn Anderson)
“They are…I mean there’s nothing loaded, but they are…we do a lot of shooting, we do a lot of deer hunting. He shot his first deer this year,” Colin says. “Like I’m pretty much in shock…I’m p—ed off to be honest with you.”
“I’m a little taken back by the whole thing, but I can tell you this, I take that very serious and so does he, as a matter of fact,” Colin says.
“I don’t know anything about him saying s— like that. And I’m going to be mad as hell if he did, and then all the guns will go away and they won’t be accessible to him,” Colin continues. “You know, I’m trying to be honest. I’m trying to teach him about firearms and safety and how to do it all and get him an interest in the outdoors.”
“Get him away from the video game,” the officer responds.
“Yeah. Exactly. Right. That’s the best. The God honest truth is, the picture on my phone is him with blood on his cheeks when he shot his first deer. It’s just the greatest day ever,” Colin says. “So sure, he knows the seriousness of weapons and what they can do and how to use them and not use them.”
“So it’s kind of a little bit of a shock. So whatever y’all are telling him, please instill in him what if this is whatever or wherever some come from is no joke. No, like it’s no joke,” Colin continued.
“We wouldn’t be here,” the officer stated.
APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT COLT GRAY AND FATHER APPEAR IN COURT FOR SEPARATE HEARINGS
Colin Grey, 54, the daddy of Apalachee Excessive Faculty shooter Colt Grey, 14, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first look, on Friday, Sept. 6, in Winder, Ga. (AP Picture/Brynn Anderson)
“No, I know, I know, and I’m telling you right now we talk about it quite a bit. All the school shootings, things that happen. Yeah, I hear you getting picked on at school. He is. He’s getting picked on at school. And. Is everything okay? That’s why I keep going up there. No. You know, because you just never you never really know. And I don’t want anything to happen to him, so. Yeah. Yeah,” Colin completed.
Colt then joins the officers on the porch, wearing a blue t-shirt and sweatpants with a blue hat on.
Colin tells his son “these are good dudes, they’ll just tell ya what’s going on.”
Colt retains his palms in his pockets, showing fidgety, whereas answering the officers’ questions. He avoids eye contact with the officers whereas swearing up and down that he didn’t make a risk to shoot up the college and even states “they must have misheard somebody else.”
The officer appears to take Colt at his phrase, they usually even share amusing about individuals mendacity to police.
The suspected shooter was recognized as 14-year-old Colt Grey, a pupil. (The Barrow County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Authorities recognized Colt Grey, now 14, as the shooter who killed two college students and two lecturers at Apalachee Excessive Faculty. Grey surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody following the rampage. He’s being tried as an grownup.
Colt’s father, Colin Grey, 54, has additionally been charged in reference to the college taking pictures. He’s dealing with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree homicide and eight counts of cruelty to youngsters, in keeping with an arrest warrant affidavit.
Georgia is one among 42 states nationwide that holds mother and father criminally accountable on behalf of their youngsters.
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Authorities claimed that Colin knew and allowed his son Colt to have entry to his firearms within the family forward of Wednesday’s taking pictures.
Fox Information Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
