CNN/Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace
Newly launched physique cam exhibits the teenager charged within the Apalachee Excessive College taking pictures telling cops he didn’t threaten to open fireplace in his earlier faculty … whereas his father claimed to take gun security along with his son very severely.
The Jackson County Sheriff in Georgia launched the footage late Monday of an investigator visiting Colt Grey and his father Colin — who’s now dealing with manslaughter expenses for the 4 Apalachee Excessive killings — in Might 2023. Legislation enforcement was investigating an alleged menace the then 13-year-old had made on the social media platform Discord.
The teenager totally denied making the menacing remarks about his earlier faculty, telling the cop, “I don’t know. Maybe they misheard somebody else. No, I swear.” He additionally mentioned he had deleted his Discord account.
The investigator additionally spoke to the daddy, who mentioned he spoke to his son ceaselessly about faculty shootings, and about him being the sufferer of bullying.
Colin additionally admitted having a number of weapons in the home, and that Colt did have entry to them — nevertheless, he instructed the deputy they weren’t loaded.
As for the alleged faculty taking pictures menace on social media, Colt’s father instructed the deputy … “I don’t know anything about him saying (expletive) like that. And I’m going to be mad as hell if he did. And then all the guns will go away. And they won’t be accessible to him,”
As we reported, the AR-style rifle cops say Colt used to shoot up his new faculty was a Christmas reward from his father.
Two days after this physique cam, investigators adopted up with a telephone name to the Grey residence, and decided there was no possible trigger to cost Colt.
After father and son had been evicted in 2022, they moved and Colt ultimately enrolled at Apalachee Excessive. Legislation enforcement has mentioned there isn’t any report of Colt’s new faculty being alerted in regards to the investigation into the earlier taking pictures menace.
