The suspect in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School, 58 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been named as Colt Gray, 14. Two students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and two teachers, Richard Aspinwall, aged 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, are confirmed dead. Reports also indicated Gray was flagged to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and interviewed by law enforcement last year.
Gray, a student at Apalachee High School, allegedly used an “AR-platform style weapon” in the attack. Law enforcement apprehended him, and he is now in custody, facing charges as an adult.
The FBI confirms its National Threat Operations Center received anonymous tips about “online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time” in May 2023 and soon identified Georgia as their origin. Gray and his father were interviewed by Sheriff’s deputies in Jackson County, with the father confirming “he had hunting guns in the house, but [Gray] did not have unsupervised access to them.”
“The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject,” the FBI added, insisting “there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.”
