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It didn’t take long into the school year to remind us that America has a gun problem, thanks to another school shooting at Apalachee High School in Atlanta, Georgia. The 14-year-old suspected shooter is in custody, and now his father has joined him behind bars.
Spotted on Raw Story, the father of the suspected shooter Colt Gray, who shot and killed two classmates and two teachers, was arrested this week, authorities said.
Per The Georgia Bureau of Investigations’ official account on X, formerly Twitter, Colin Gray was taken into custody and “faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children” in connection to the shooting carried out by his son.
If convicted, the 54-year-old is looking at 180 years in prison, meaning he will never see the light of the day, just like his son.
Colin Gray getting cuffs slapped on his wrists came after CNN reported that Colin Gray brought the AR-15 his son used in the shooting for Christmas.
That’s not the only news that paints a picture of a troubled family. Colt Gray’s mother also has some baggage.
Per Raw Story:
The report comes after news emerged that Marcee Gray, the suspected shooter’s mother, had a lengthy criminal record dating back more than two decades in four counties.
She faced prosecution on allegations of domestic violence, drug possession, property damage and traffic violations in Barrow, Fulton and Forsyth counties, and also faced civil fraud charges related to a vehicle purchase.
Bruh
Social Media Weighs In On The Charges Against Colin Gray
Reactions to the news are as expected: no sympathy and utter disgust that Colin Gray purchased such a weapon for a 14-year-old child, who is now facing adult punishment for his heinous act.
“Just months after Colt Gray was investigated by the FBI for threats, his father Collin Gray bought him the AR weapon used to kill other children. There’s no possible excuse for this,” one person on X wrote.
Comedian D.L. Hughley wrote on X, “Any parent that buys a 14 year old a AR15 is a shitty parent!!.”
Where’s the lie?
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Investigators at the Georgia high school where a shooting occurred confirmed that the suspect had been interviewed about past threats.
On Wednesday night (September 4), authorities at a press conference held after a deadly shooting at a Georgia high school confirmed that the suspect had been interviewed about past threats by local law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that their National Threat Operations Center had received several anonymous tips in 2023 about Colt Gray, the suspect in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia which claimed the lives of four victims.
Gray, who was 13 at the time of the reports, had been interviewed by investigators from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office along with his father concerning those tips which spoke of the threats of a shooting at “an unidentified location and time,” with those threats containing photographs of guns. The suspect denied making those threats, which were found posted on an online gaming site. His father told the officers that he did have a collection of hunting guns at the home, but his son did not have unsupervised access to those weapons. The sheriff’s office then alerted the local schools “for continued monitoring of the subject.” It wasn’t clear if Apalachee High School received those alerts – the school is in the neighboring Barrow County. The F.B.I. issued a statement saying that local authorities didn’t have probable cause to “take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.” The state Division of Child and Family Services was also contacted, according to an AP News report.
Gray was reportedly apprehended by school resource officials after immediately surrendering after the shooting, which claimed the lives of two students and two instructors at Apalachee. An assault-style rifle was used in the shooting, authorities confirmed. Jackson County Sheriff Janis C. Magnum cautioned against the spreading of misinformation in a statement on Facebook. “My phone is blowing up with messages from people about social media postings about other possible incidents,” she wrote. “To my knowledge, there is not a list indicating any of this.”
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s terse response to a high school shooting was thoroughly rebuked by many on social media.
On Wednesday (September 4), four people were shot and killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia which is an hour’s drive east of Atlanta. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s comments in the wake of the shooting weren’t well received, and social media users made it a point to remind him of his culpability in the situation. Kemp spoke at a press conference held at the scene on Wednesday night, stating: “Today is not the day for politics and policy, today is a day for investigation,” and said that the victims and their families are in his prayers.
The Republican governor also touched on his ties to the area in his remarks to the press, reflecting on representing Barrow County as a Georgia State Senator over 20 years ago. Kemp was previously scheduled to speak before the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Nevada but canceled the trip. He then gave way to Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey, who provided details about the victims – 14-year-olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and instructors Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie – to the press. The 14-year-old suspect, a student at the school named Colt Gray, was apprehended by school resource officers on campus. Investigators said that he used an assault-style rifle in the shooting, and will be charged as an adult for murder.
Kemp’s remarks received substantial outrage and pushback on social media. Many pointed out his signing of a bill in 2022 expanding gun rights in the state allowing residents to carry handguns in public without a background check or a license. He also vigorously defended his stance in 2021 when told of Georgia’s failing grade from the Giffords Law Center on gun control. “I’ll wear this ‘F’ as a badge of honor,” he said at the time. Journalist Mehdi Hasan was among those pointing out Kemp’s political ad where he talked with teenagers while holding a rifle in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Kemp has also been a firm ally of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Check out more of the social media responses to Kemp’s remarks below.
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8. Emily Bloxton
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A shooting incident broke out at Michigan State University on Monday (Feb. 13) that left three students dead and five others critically injured. Local police say they located the gunman at a separate location where he died of a self-inflicted gun wound.
Local outlet Click On Detroit was among many outlets that covered the Michigan State University shooting, which took place at 8:18 PM local time inside Berkey Hall, an academic building on the MSU campus grounds. Two students were shot dead inside Berkey Hall along with others being injured. Later, the gunman opened fire at the MSU Union building, leaving another student dead and injuring more.
Details surrounding the shooting are scant at best but naturally, the news of the violent act once again drummed up the ongoing debate of gun control in the nation and with so many unanswered questions about the gunman’s motives, tensions are high as police continue to investigate the matter.
The gunman was identified as 43-year-old Anthony McCrae. As reported by Click On Detroit, McCrae had a criminal record in the city of Lansing, Mich. The 2019 charge was over a concealed weapon and McCrae completed probation in 2021.
As this story develops, we’ll return to add details as they become known to the public.
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