(16 Oct 2024)
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Barrow County, Georgia – 16 October 2024
1. Colt Gray’s father Colin Gray entering the court room and sitting down
2. Zoom out to pan left, Barrow County Sheriff County Investigator Jason Smith taking an oath on court
3. Close of Smith
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Winder, Georgia – 24 September 2024
4. STILL, a school bus delivers children to Apalachee High School for a memorial
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Barrow County, Georgia – 16 October 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsey Ward, special agent at Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
"She said that over the past year his fascination with guns had gotten very bad. That was her wording specifically over the last few months. She said that he had also had a couple of physical altercations with his dad that were concerning to her. She specifically discussed that Colt had talked to her about the Columbine in Sandy Hook shootings. When he had talked to her about that, he would reference the school shootings, but then say just kidding. Or he would make "joking comments" as she described about the school shootings. She also stated if that Colt had asked his dad to buy him what he considered a shooter mask that was all black with just the eye holes cut out. And when she asked him why he needed that, he stated in a joking manner, What? I’ve got to finish up my school shooter outfit, just kidding."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winder, Georgia – 24 September 2024
6. STILL, Students arrive at Apalachee High School, after the school reopened almost three weeks after a deadly shooting on campus
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Barrow County, Georgia – 16 October 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsey Ward, special agent at Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
"She stated that she and Colin and her mother had discussed his fascination with school shooters, but had all kind of determined that it was in a joking manner and or I interpreted them to mean not a serious thing."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The father of a teenager accused of a deadly high school shooting in Georgia was aware that his son was obsessed with school shooters and even had a shrine in his bedroom for the gunman in the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors said at a Wednesday court hearing.
Colin Gray had also given his son, Colt, the assault-style weapon used in the shooting that killed four people at Apalachee High School as a Christmas gift and was aware that his son’s mental health had deteriorated in the weeks before the shooting, investigators testified.
Colt Gray, 14, charged with four counts of murder, is accused of using the gun to kill two fellow students and two teachers on Sept. 4 at the high school in Winder, outside Atlanta. Because he’s a juvenile, the maximum penalty he would face is life without parole.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Kelsey Ward said in court Wednesday that she nterviewed several family members, including Colt’s mother, Marcee Gray.
“She said that over the past year his fascination with guns had gotten very bad,” Ward testified.
At one point, Colt asked his dad to buy him an all-black “shooter mask,” saying in a joking manner that, “I’ve got to finish up my school shooter outfit, just kidding,” Ward said.
Colt’s parents had discussed their son’s fascination with school shooters, but decided that it was in a joking context and not a serious issue, Ward said.
Colin Gray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder related to the shooting. Arrest warrants said he caused the deaths of others “by providing a firearm to Colt Gray with knowledge that he was threat to himself and others.”
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