Key Points
- The mother of the teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at a Georgia high school called the school that morning.
- Marcee Gray spoke with a school counsellor and urged them to “immediately” find her son to check on him.
- She expressed remorse for the “pain and suffering” that the victims and their families are going through.
Gray declined to detail what prompted her call but told the Post she had shared that with law enforcement. She expressed remorse for the “pain and suffering” that the victims and their families are going through.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the lead investigative agency, referred questions to the Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case. The office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
Mourners pray at a vigil at a park in Winder where a 14-year-old Apalachee High School student is accused of shooting and killing four people and injuring nine others. Source: AAP / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
His father, Colin Gray, is accused of second-degree murder for providing his son with a semiautomatic AR 15-style rifle, in an emerging legal strategy to hold parents responsible for allowing access to firearms to minors who carry out attacks.
Prosecutors say Colin Gray provided the weapon used in the shooting.
‘He gets flustered and under pressure’
The Georgia teenager had struggled with his parents’ separation and taunting by classmates, his father told a sheriff’s investigator last year when asked whether his son posted an online threat.
The case was closed after investigators could not substantiate that either Gray was connected to the threats.