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From the Washington Post: The mother of the suspected Apalachee High School gunman told family members that she called the school on the morning of the shooting and warned a counselor about an “extreme emergency” involving her 14-year-old son, according to text messages obtained by The Washington Post and an interview with a family member.
That account is supported by a call log from the family’s shared phone plan, which shows a 10-minute call from the mother’s phone to the school starting at 9:50 a.m. — about a half-hour before witnesses have said the gunman opened fire.
“I was the one that notified the school counselor at the high school,” Marcee Gray texted her sister following the shooting on Sept. 4, according to a screenshot of the exchange. “I told them it was an extreme emergency and for them to go immediately and find [my son] to check on him.”
A counselor told Gray during the call that her son had been talking about a school shooting that morning, according to Gray’s sister, Annie Brown, who described family discussions of the events to The Post.
Earlier this week, the FBI confirmed that Colt Gray had been on their radar for over a year, since he made online threats and posted photos of guns back in May 2023. The sheriff’s department had interviewed the boy and his father at that time, and had alerted the school to monitor him.
According to the report, text records show that just a week before the shooting, the family and the school were communicating about Colt’s mental health, and the teen was reportedly having “homicidal and suicidal thoughts.”
Then, about 30 minutes prior to the shooting Wednesday morning, the mother had made the desperate call to the school, warning that he may be planning a shooting. The Washington Post wrote:
Around the same time, a school administrator went to the son’s math classroom, according to Lyela Sayarath, a student in the class. Sayarath said there seemed to be confusion involving another student in the class with a name similar to that of Gray’s son. Neither student was in the room, and the official left with a backpack belonging to the similarly named student, she said. The shooting began minutes later.
Two teachers and two students were killed when Colt Gray opened fire in the school hallway. Nine others received gunshot wounds, and about 30 in all were wounded.
Mother of Georgia suspect is said to have called school minutes before shooting, warning of ‘extreme emergency’ involving her son https://t.co/ABw0Wub2o9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2024
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