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The parent of the fishy successful past week’s Georgia shooting contacted his schoolhouse to pass of an "extreme emergency" and asked them to cheque connected her lad the time of the attack, US media reports.
Both the suspect's parent and grandma were successful interaction with the schoolhouse anterior to the shooting, according to reports.
Colt Gray, 14, is accused of carrying retired a shooting astatine Apalachee High School that near 4 radical dormant and 9 injured. He faces 4 counts of first-degree murder.
The revelations travel aft authorities besides charged the suspect’s father, Colin Gray, with 2nd grade murder, manslaughter, and kid cruelty.
Officials impeach him of allowing his lad to person an AR-15 benignant rifle.
Both begetter and lad appeared successful tribunal connected Friday but neither entered a plea.
The Washington Post obtained substance messages sent by the boy's mother, Marcee Gray, to her sister, explaining that she had asked schoolhouse officials to cheque connected her lad the greeting of the shooting.
“I was the 1 that notified the schoolhouse counsellor astatine the precocious school,” Ms Gray wrote.
“I told them it was an utmost exigency and for them to spell instantly and find [my son] to cheque connected him.”
It is not wide what caused her to interaction the school.
The suspect’s aunt, Annie Brown, provided the substance messages and telephone logs to the Post. The suspect’s parent aboriginal confirmed the records to the newspaper.
Ms Brown besides confirmed the substance exchanges to different US media outlets.
The telephone records amusement Ms Gray called the schoolhouse astir a fractional an hr earlier the shooting began.
According to the Post, determination appears to person been immoderate disorder erstwhile a schoolhouse head went to look the boy, arsenic different kid had a akin name.
Separately, Charlie Polhamus, Colt Gray’s grandfather, told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the boy's grandma had spoken with schoolhouse officials that week.
"My woman had gone up there…the time earlier and met with the teachers to get him some, they were having immoderate problems with him not going to school, and this benignant of thing," helium said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is handling the case, did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.
The Barrow County School System has besides not commented to media connected the reports.
Colt Gray is accused of shooting and sidesplitting 2 14-year-olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.
In the months starring up to the shooting, helium had faced intelligence wellness struggles and difficulties astatine home, Ms Brown told the Washington Post.
The FBI besides said that constabulary interviewed the lad successful May 2023 astir anonymous online threats to perpetrate a schoolhouse shooting. He denied to constabulary helium was down them.
Vigils person been held to vigils to commemorate the victims and mourners person created a memorial of flowers, candles, and balloons extracurricular Apalachee High School.
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