After being shot, seven more people were hurt, and two more kids also sustained injuries.
Colt Gray, a 14-year-old who was detained on suspicion of the shooting, will face an adult trial.
Lyela Sayarath, a classmate of Gray’s, told CNN that the adolescent allegedly attempted to enter the classroom where she was when another student saw he was carrying a gun.
Sayarath claimed he went to another class after they refused to open the locked door.
She remarked, “I believe he wanted to come to us first.”
“I heard gunshots outside my classroom and people screaming, people begging not to get shot,” exclaimed Macey Right, a different student.
“And then, the people seated next to me started crying and trembling.”
Gray reportedly turned himself in after a school resource officer questioned him, according to CNN.
According to Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith, during the adolescent’s arrest and detention, Gray admitted to the police, “I did it,” when they questioned him.
It was then disclosed that the adolescent had been questioned by the FBI in May 2023, following complaints from an anonymous source that someone was allegedly making “online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time.”
According to the BBC, Gray and his father were interviewed, but the adolescent denied posting the threats online and was not taken into custody at the time.
“The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” the FBI said in a statement. There was no reasonable suspicion at the time to make an arrest or pursue any other legal action at the local, state, or federal levels of government.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced on Twitter yesterday, September 5, that Colin Gray had been detained “in connection with the shooting at Apalachee High School” and was facing charges of “four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.” This arrest followed the teenager’s.
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