The father of the teenager accused of Georgia’s deadliest faculty capturing instructed investigators wanting into a web based risk final yr that he had been instructing his son about weapons and looking and that the boy claimed that his account had been hacked.
“I’ll be mad as hell if he did” make threats a couple of faculty capturing, mentioned the daddy, Colin Grey, in line with a transcript of the Could 2023 interview obtained by The New York Instances.”Then all of the weapons will go away,” he added.
Information from an eviction the earlier yr present that Grey owned a number of weapons, together with an AR-15, the kind of firearm that officers say was used within the capturing Wednesday morning at Apalachee Excessive College in Winder, Georgia.
Grey mentioned he wished to get his son, Colt, now 14, within the open air and away from video video games, in line with the interview transcript. Colt, then 13, had lately shot his first deer, and his father saved a photograph on his telephone of the animal’s blood smeared on the boy’s cheeks — a typical custom amongst hunters.
Grey mentioned that he and his son had usually mentioned “all the varsity shootings, issues that occur.” He instructed the investigator with the Jackson County sheriff’s workplace: “He is aware of the seriousness of weapons and what they’ll do, and the way to use them and never use them.”
Grey mentioned his son had been picked on over the past three months of the varsity yr, which had simply ended on the time of the interview. The issues had escalated to the purpose at which Colt had hassle concentrating on his ultimate exams, his father mentioned.
Grey mentioned he had been to his son’s center faculty often, speaking to the principal and asking for assist. “He will get flustered and below strain,” he mentioned of Colt. “He would not actually suppose straight.”
The investigator was wanting into tips on a put up made in a chat group on Discord, a social media web site, a couple of potential faculty capturing. The put up, which had been reported to the FBI, was linked by investigators to the account related to Grey’s son.
Grey mentioned in a follow-up telephone name with an investigator that he did not know a lot about Discord and that he had requested his son to “dumb this down for me.” His son had instructed him about folks known as “raiders” who may break into different folks’s Discord accounts, he mentioned. “They’ll make it principally say no matter they wish to about you,” Grey mentioned his son had defined.
Colt instructed the investigator that he had not used Discord in months and was solely on TikTok to look at movies. The investigator ended one interview by telling {the teenager}, who had simply completed seventh grade, to deal with getting good grades.
“It will set you up for the remainder of your life,” he mentioned.
In a follow-up telephone name with Grey, an investigator instructed him he wasn’t positive they might be capable of resolve who had made the put up on Discord. He assured Grey he did not suppose Colt was being dishonest and inspired Grey to verify his son’s id had not been stolen.
Grey mentioned his son was longing for the scenario to be resolved. “He desires to know what occurred,” he instructed the investigator.
“I’ll be mad as hell if he did” make threats a couple of faculty capturing, mentioned the daddy, Colin Grey, in line with a transcript of the Could 2023 interview obtained by The New York Instances.”Then all of the weapons will go away,” he added.
Information from an eviction the earlier yr present that Grey owned a number of weapons, together with an AR-15, the kind of firearm that officers say was used within the capturing Wednesday morning at Apalachee Excessive College in Winder, Georgia.
Grey mentioned he wished to get his son, Colt, now 14, within the open air and away from video video games, in line with the interview transcript. Colt, then 13, had lately shot his first deer, and his father saved a photograph on his telephone of the animal’s blood smeared on the boy’s cheeks — a typical custom amongst hunters.
Grey mentioned that he and his son had usually mentioned “all the varsity shootings, issues that occur.” He instructed the investigator with the Jackson County sheriff’s workplace: “He is aware of the seriousness of weapons and what they’ll do, and the way to use them and never use them.”
Grey mentioned his son had been picked on over the past three months of the varsity yr, which had simply ended on the time of the interview. The issues had escalated to the purpose at which Colt had hassle concentrating on his ultimate exams, his father mentioned.
Grey mentioned he had been to his son’s center faculty often, speaking to the principal and asking for assist. “He will get flustered and below strain,” he mentioned of Colt. “He would not actually suppose straight.”
The investigator was wanting into tips on a put up made in a chat group on Discord, a social media web site, a couple of potential faculty capturing. The put up, which had been reported to the FBI, was linked by investigators to the account related to Grey’s son.
Grey mentioned in a follow-up telephone name with an investigator that he did not know a lot about Discord and that he had requested his son to “dumb this down for me.” His son had instructed him about folks known as “raiders” who may break into different folks’s Discord accounts, he mentioned. “They’ll make it principally say no matter they wish to about you,” Grey mentioned his son had defined.
Colt instructed the investigator that he had not used Discord in months and was solely on TikTok to look at movies. The investigator ended one interview by telling {the teenager}, who had simply completed seventh grade, to deal with getting good grades.
“It will set you up for the remainder of your life,” he mentioned.
In a follow-up telephone name with Grey, an investigator instructed him he wasn’t positive they might be capable of resolve who had made the put up on Discord. He assured Grey he did not suppose Colt was being dishonest and inspired Grey to verify his son’s id had not been stolen.
Grey mentioned his son was longing for the scenario to be resolved. “He desires to know what occurred,” he instructed the investigator.
