First image of 14-year-old Colt Gray, suspected of killing four people in Georgia school shooting | US News
Police have released a photo of a teenager suspected of shooting four people in the US state of Georgia.
Two teachers and two students were killed in the attack. Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta, on Wednesday.
Colt Gray, 14, surrendered when he was “attacked by security guards at school,” Barrow County police said.
To “protect the integrity of the investigation,” neither bodycam videos nor audio data would be released, the sheriff’s office said.
Nine other people were injured in the shooting.
According to Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Gray was charged as an adult in the deaths of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.
His first court date is scheduled for Friday.
Investigators are trying to find out how the teenager apparently got hold of a semi-automatic rifle.
Gray and his father were questioned last year in connection with online threats about a school shooting on the gaming platform Discord. They denied making the comments, investigators said.
Gray’s father told officers that he had locked hunting rifles in a safe in the house and that his son had no access to them.
Students and staff gather next to a school soccer field. Image: Reuters
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