The mother of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray told his family she called her son’s school to warn them of an “extreme emergency” the morning he allegedly killed four people.
Marcee Gray, the mother of the alleged shooter, was seen in text messages shared by The Washington Post telling his family: ‘I told them it was an extreme emergency and to go immediately to find (my son) to see how he was.’
The outlet reported that a call log from the family’s shared phone plan shows Gray made a 10-minute call to the school at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday, about a half-hour before Colt allegedly opened fire.
A school counselor told Marcee that her son had been talking about the school shootings that morning, according to Gray’s sister, Annie Brown, who spoke to The Post.
Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspected shooter, told her family she called her son’s school to warn them of an “extreme emergency” the morning he allegedly killed four people.
Colt Gray, 14, was arrested Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, minutes after authorities said he opened fire on 13 students and teachers, killing four.
Shortly after the shooting began, reports emerged that Apalachee High School received a warning that tragedy could occur.
In texts allegedly sent by Marcee, she told her family: ‘I was the one who notified the high school guidance counselor.’
His sister Annie Brown said a counselor told Marcee that her son was displaying disruptive behavior that morning, talking ominously about school shootings.
At the same time, one of Colt’s classmates, Lyela Sayarath, who previously shared a chilling account of how close she came to death, told the outlet that a school administrator went looking for Colt in her class.
In her earlier account to CNN, Sayarath said Colt was a serial class skipper and assumed that was what he was doing when he left the classroom minutes before the administrator arrived.
However, there was some confusion, as there was another student with a similar name to Colt in the class. Neither of them were in the room, and the administrator left the room with the backpack of the student with the similar name.
Minutes later, the shooting began.
Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic student at Apalachee High School, was the first victim to be identified. He was among four people killed in the mass shooting.
Teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie also died in the tragedy.
Student Christian Angulo, 14, also lost his life in the senseless shooting.
