CNN/Jackson County Sheriff’s Workplace
Newly launched physique cam reveals the teenager charged within the Apalachee Excessive College taking pictures telling cops he didn’t threaten to open fireplace in his earlier college … whereas his father claimed to take gun security along with his son very significantly.
The Jackson County Sheriff in Georgia launched the footage late Monday of an investigator visiting Colt Grey and his father Colin — who’s now going through manslaughter fees for the 4 Apalachee Excessive killings — in Could 2023. Regulation enforcement was investigating an alleged menace the then 13-year-old had made on the social media platform Discord.
The teenager absolutely denied making the menacing remarks about his earlier college, 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 college 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 — nonetheless, he informed the deputy they weren’t loaded.
As for the alleged college taking pictures menace on social media, Colt’s father informed 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 college was a Christmas reward from his father.
Two days after this physique cam, investigators adopted up with a telephone name to the Grey house, 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. Regulation enforcement has mentioned there isn’t any file of Colt’s new college being alerted in regards to the investigation into the earlier taking pictures menace.
