WINDER, Ga. (Court TV/Scripps News) — A 14-year-old has been charged with four counts of felony murder after a deadly shooting at Apalachee High School, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Colt Gray is charged with murder for the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School. (Barrow County Sheriff’s Office)
Colt Gray, 14, is expected to appear in court on Friday, the agency said. Four people — two teachers and two students — were killed in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, 45 miles outside of Atlanta.
Authorities identified the victims as 14-year-old Mason Schermerhorn, 14-year-old Christian Angulo, 39-year-old Richard Aspinwall and 53-year-old Christina Irimie.
Nine other people were hospitalized with various injuries, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said on Wednesday afternoon. All of those who had been hospitalized as a result of the shooting were expected to recover.
Authorities said they first were alerted at 10:20 a.m. to a possible shooting at the high school. Law enforcement, including two resource officers, were reportedly on the scene within minutes. One of the resource officers “engaged” the shooter, who surrendered, authorities said.
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The FBI revealed on Wednesday that local authorities had interviewed the teen in 2023 after receiving anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting. The agency said the boy denied making the threats and his father said his son didn’t have “unsupervised” access to hunting guns in the house.
“At the time, there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels,” the FBI wrote.
GBI said it has no evidence of additional shooters, but is “pursuing all leads regarding any potential associates of the shooter.”
In a statement, President Joe Biden also offered his support and said he is thinking about the victims. He went on to call for Republicans in Congress to pass “common-sense gun safety legislation.” “We must ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines once again, require safe storage of firearms, enact universal background checks, and end immunity for gun manufacturers,” the President said.
According to authorities, the father of the teenager charged in the killing of four people at Apalachee High School was arrested on Thursday.
