Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Chris Hosey announced during an evening news conference that the 14-year-old suspect in the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Winder, Georgia, will be booked on Wednesday night.
According to authorities, Colt Grey will face murder charges in relation to the deaths of two instructors and two pupils at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
Hosey identified the victims as 14-year-old Mason Schermerhorn, 14-year-old Christian Angulo, 39-year-old Richard Aspinwall, and 53-year-old Christina Irimie. According to the school’s website, Aspinwall was an assistant football coach in addition to being a maths teacher. The gunfire sent students and faculty desperately scurrying for cover as schools across the county went into lockdown and parents scrambled for information.
During the shooting, 14-year-old Macey Right texted her mom saying she heard gunshots and asked her mother to come get her. Right and her friends held hands and prayed in their classroom, she said. Moments later, they were disrupted by banging and yelling, according to Macey.
“I heard gunshots outside my classroom and people screaming, people begging not to get shot, and then people sitting beside me just shaking and crying,” Macey said. The suspect was interviewed by local law enforcement in May 2023 after the FBI received “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time,” according to a joint statement from the FBI’s Atlanta office and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
The online threats included photographs of guns, the statement said.“The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” the statement said. “The subject denied making the threats online.” The FBI said there was no probable cause for an arrest at the time.
Wednesday’s shooting is the deadliest of the 45 school shootings so far this calendar year, according to a CNN analysis. It is one of 11 school shootings with four or more deaths since 2008, when CNN first started tracking school shootings. Authorities said the first report of an active shooter came in at 10:20 a.m. ET. A school resource deputy assigned to Apalachee High confronted the shooter, who got on the ground and was taken into custody, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters.
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