The mom of the suspect in final week’s Georgia taking pictures contacted his faculty to warn of an “excessive emergency” and requested them to examine on her son the day of the assault, US media experiences.
Each the suspect’s mom and grandmother have been involved with the college previous to the taking pictures, in keeping with experiences.
Colt Grey, 14, is accused of finishing up a taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive Faculty that left 4 individuals useless and 9 injured. He faces 4 counts of first-degree homicide.
The revelations come after authorities additionally charged the suspect’s father, Colin Grey, with second diploma homicide, manslaughter, and baby cruelty.
Officers accuse him of permitting his son to own an AR-15 fashion rifle.
Each father and son appeared in courtroom on Friday however neither entered a plea.
The Washington Put up obtained textual content messages despatched by the boy’s mom, Marcee Grey, to her sister, explaining that she had requested faculty officers to examine on her son the morning of the taking pictures.
“I used to be the one which notified the college counsellor at the highschool,” Ms Grey wrote.
“I informed them it was an excessive emergency and for them to go instantly and discover [my son] to examine on him.”
It isn’t clear what precipitated her to contact the college.
The suspect’s aunt, Annie Brown, supplied the textual content messages and name logs to the Put up. The suspect’s mom later confirmed the data to the newspaper.
Ms Brown additionally confirmed the textual content exchanges to different US media retailers.
The telephone data present Ms Grey known as the college a few half an hour earlier than the taking pictures started.
In accordance with the Put up, there seems to have been some confusion when a faculty administrator went to search for the boy, as one other baby had an analogous title.
Individually, Charlie Polhamus, Colt Grey’s grandfather, informed CBS Information, the BBC’s US associate, that the boy’s grandmother had spoken with faculty officers that week.
“My spouse had gone up there…the day earlier than and met with the lecturers to get him some, they have been having some issues with him not going to highschool, and this type of factor,” he mentioned.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is dealing with the case, didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
The Barrow County Faculty System has additionally not commented to media on the experiences.
Colt Grey is accused of taking pictures and killing two 14-year-olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and lecturers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.
Within the months main as much as the taking pictures, he had confronted psychological well being struggles and difficulties at residence, Ms Brown informed the Washington Put up.
The FBI additionally mentioned that police interviewed the boy in Could 2023 about nameless on-line threats to commit a faculty taking pictures. He denied to police he was behind them.
Vigils have been held to commemorate the victims and mourners have created a memorial of flowers, candles, and balloons outdoors Apalachee Excessive Faculty.