Georgia arrests Colin Gray, father of suspected school shooter
Georgia state officials arrested the father of the 14-year-old suspected school shooter Colt Gray on Thursday in connection with Wednesday's shooting at Apalachee High School that killed four people and wounded nine.
«In coordination with District Attorney Brad Smith, the GBI has arrested Colin Gray, age 54, in connection to the shooting at Apalachee High School. Colin is Colt Gray's father,» the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on X.
Both Grays had been questioned by local officials in neighboring Jackson County last year in connection with an online threat to commit a school shooting, but there was no probable cause for their arrest, the FBI said on Wednesday.
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In that 2023 probe, the father said he had hunting guns in the house but that his son did not have unsupervised access to them, and the son denied making the threats online, the FBI said.
Georgia state and Barrow County investigators say the younger Gray used an "AR platform style weapon," or semiautomatic rifle, to carry out the attack in which two teachers and two 14-year-old students were killed.
It remained unclear how the shooter obtained the weapon.
The shooter's ability to obtain the semiautomatic rifle, any signs warning that he would actually carry out a shooting, and his motive are focuses for investigators digging into the first U.S. campus mass shooting since the start of the school year.
Jackson County sheriff's investigators closed the
