Colt Gray: AR-15 style Rifle
A shooting occurred at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia Wednesday morning Sep 4.
The accused, a 14-year-old student named Colt Gray, reportedly opened fired with an AR-15 style rifle that killed two teachers and two students.
Gray is now in custody and he will be charged as an adult with murder, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.
Nine others at the house were hospitalized, but it’s not clear why Gray did this.
Gray had previously been interviewed by law enforcement after anonymous tips last year of online threats to conduct a shooting at the school.
Those tips, that got Gray and his father interviews as being or potential snipers were accompanied by pictures of some guns.
The father told the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office “the hunting guns in the house, but to our knowledge, it was not a gun that ever shot as far as we know about, “defense attorney Sharon Williams said on Tuesday. He admitted on taking about the threats online. Local schools were notified by Jackson County to continue monitoring the subject.
After conducting a suspicious investigation, authorities determined at this time there was no probable cause for arrest or further action.
Apalachee High School junior Lyela Sayarath called Gray “pretty quiet.”
“Actually, he never did much talking,” she said.
He wasn’t there most times. Either he wasn’t in school yet or head skip class entirely.” “… I mean when he probably would have talked, it was just like one-word answers or short sentences,” she continued.
Sayarath said she sat next to Gray in math class just before the shooting. She says she was not surprised to find that he had been the shooter.
“Nobody else was really talking about like, just because of when you think of shooters and how they act or things that they do, it’s normally the quiet kid kind of thing,” the mom said.
Gray, She Sayarath said, left the math class at the beginning of that period and only re-entered near its end.
When Gray returned, the classroom doors had automatically locked and he could not get back in. In her recording, Sayarath said that after being announced over the loudspeaker to get into a classroom and stay there, her teacher promptly opened up an email featuring Gray’s message-prompting his parent’s possible intentions.
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‘Well, they almost let him in but I’m pretty sure she saw the gun so right away back up,’ Sayarath said.
And then he walked away and that’s when you hear like the first round of shots. He went to another classroom and shot again, Tooley said
Gray had been arrested just minutes after he began shooting.
The investigation of Gray last year was prompted by “multiple anonymous tips relating to threats being made on the internet to conduct a school shooting at an unknown location and time.”
But this did not lead to any legal consequences at the time due to a lack of evidence.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey says Gray will be charged as an adult.
Winder — a small town an hour outside of Atlanta is stuck trying to make sense of it all. Police said they continued to investigate what may have led Gray to set his home on fire.
How many school shootings have been reported in 2024?
There have been seven deaths and 29 injuries connected to the other 22 school shootings prior Wednesdays in Georgia, based on weekly count from Education Week.
Three of these seven were students, children under 18 (or a relatively low age). Four were school employees/adults.
The deaths and injuries that occurred on Wednesday brought the total number of people who were killed or injured by a school shooting to 49 in 2024, with there being a total of 11 fatalities and an additional count of 38 individuals wounded.
The numbers below reflect how many people have been killed or hurt, and if they were children or adults in school shootings since 2018.
In 2024:
49 people injured
killed in 23
In school shootings
In 2023:
63 people injured/killed
In 38 school shootings
In 2022:
140 people injured/killed
In 51 school shootings
In 2021:
70 people killed/injured
In 35 school shootings
In 2020:
12 people killed/injured
In 10 school shootings
In 2019:
40 people killed/injured
In 24 school shootings
In 2018:
114 people killed/injured
In 24 school shootings in 2018
Total:
488 people killed
Injured in 205 school shootings since 2018
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