Details from a previous interview with the alleged Apalachee High School killer’s father revealed what preference the suspect was said to have been bullied about by classmates.
“Just ridiculed him day after day after day.”
More details have emerged regarding Wednesday’s tragedy in Winder, Georgia that left four dead, including two 14-year-old students. As both the 14-year-old suspect, Colt Gray, and his 54-year-old father, Colin Gray, were charged for the deaths, a May 21, 2023 interview with law enforcement detailed how the alleged killer was bullied as “gay.”
“[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,” the father had told Jackson County Sheriff’s Office investigator Daniel Miller according to a transcript of the interview attached to the official’s report.
“I was trying to get him on the golf team…like, ‘Oh look Colt’s gay. He’s dating that guy,'” added the elder Gray. “Just ridiculed him day after day after day.”
As his teen son faced four counts of murder and was being charged as an adult, and he himself was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the father had further said according to the transcript, “He doesn’t really think straight, can we just, you know, just kind of put your arms around him and get him through seventh grade.”
“I just wanna make sure he’s good. Like I mean we’re up there all the time talking to the school,” he added.
It had been alleged that the firearm used during the tragedy had been purchased after the interview with law enforcement and had been prompted by concerns that the younger Gray may have made threats.
The investigation had made particular note of a Discord account that had been attributed to the teen with a username written in Russian with letters that reportedly translated to “Lanza,” a reference to the Sandy Hook Elementary school perpetrator, Adam Lanza.
“[I’m] committing a mass shooting and [I’m] waiting a good 2-3 years…I can’t kill myself yet, cause I’m not contributing anything to culture I need to go out knowing I did,” one message on the app was said to have read.
The report further detailed that the suspect claimed to have stopped using the platform and contended that it had been hacked. “The only thing I have is TikTok, but I just go on there and watch videos.”
Miller wrote in the report, “Colt expressed concern that someone is accusing him of threatening to shoot up a school, stating that he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner.”
In addition to the deaths of Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, both 14-year-olds, along with 39-year-old Richard Aspinwell and 53-year-old Christina Irimie, nine others were said to have been injured in Wednesday’s tragedy — eight of them students. The violent incident came one day after The Tennessee Star had publicly released the writings of the killer responsible for the deaths at the Nashville, Tennessee Christian Covenant School that focused heavily on gender ideology.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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