Colt Gray, 14 years oldopened fire last Wednesday with a semi-automatic rifle in one Georgia High School, USAkilling four people and injuring nine, for reasons still unknown, but apparently eager to replicate the massacre that occurred at a school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.
He Shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in which 17 people died, was one of the recent massacres in the United States that Colt was documenting and even writing about.
According to US media, police officers who searched Colt’s home found texts in his bedroom about that massacre, which along with the one in Uvalde (Texas) in 2022 is among the deadliest to occur in schools in this country.
The above is a clue that helps investigators to configure a problematic family life prior to the shooting that Colt perpetrated in a hallway at Apalachee High School, in the town of Winder, and for which This Friday he was charged with four counts of murderalthough prosecutors are anticipating additional charges.
The blond-haired teenager broke into action Wednesday morning with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, a weapon that CNN reported It was bought by his father, Colin Gray, 54 years old.who gave it to his son as a Christmas present in December 2023.
Colt had a history of threats
The present, given despite disturbing backgrounds linking Colt to threats posted on the Internet to unleash a massacre at a school, has resulted in the Colin Gray’s arrestwho also He was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.among other charges, and that his son could spend the rest of his life in prison.
According to reports, the parents of the minor live separately and have been involved in a fierce dispute over the custody of their three children, in addition to having been evicted from at least one home.
The mother, Marcee Gray, has a history of drug possession in 2023 and pleaded guilty in a Barrow County, Georgia, court to property damage and was subject to a restraining order preventing her from contacting her ex-husband unless it was related to child care or divorce matters.
A Mexican, among the victims
He stroke that Gray unleashed ended the lives of the 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Mexican Christian Ángulo, as well as math teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.
“The SRE regrets the death of the Mexican minor and sends its condolences to the family, as well as to the community of Winder, in light of this tragic event,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
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Father and son, who had their first court appearance on Friday with court-appointed lawyers, will return to court on December 4, the date set for a preliminary hearing.