Cole now and well come to you 800 a31, 3,700 appreciate you being here i in coordination with the District Attorney with Disk Return Attorney brad smith, the gbi has arrested Colin Gray, age 54 in connection to the shooting here at Apalachee High School . Kharlan is coat grace, father that was arrested yesterday he is charged with the following four counts of involuntary manslaughter two counts of Seconddegree Murder and eight counts of cruelty to children mr. Gray, these charges stem from mr. Gray knowingly allowing his Son Colt to possess a weapon this is a very difficult time as we know, for students and parents. And so many i know of students and parents. Here in this county and around this state are afraid you all have likely seen reports of incidents of other students making threats today. At various schools around our state. In each of these incidents police, Law Enforcement took charges. They made arrests, acted very swiftly. As we take incidents like this very seriously across this state. This is a time for all of us as a community and a state to come together and remain vigilant students must be supported, inc. And encouraged here in this community across the state to contact a member of their Schools Faculty with any and all concerns of suspicious activity that they may seem local state and federal Law Enforcement will continue to work together around the clock in relation to this incident here. In any other incidents that come up around this state that raised concern to the safety of our students faculty, and citizens here in the State Of Georgia additionally, Colt Gray that was arrested yesterday for this incident has now been charged with four counts of Felony Murder and again, we will continue to work tirelessly to finish complete this investigation as well. We move forward. I will go ahead and mention to you, and as i say, sometimes im go ahead and apologize to you. As you all know that this is a Murder Investigation it is a very serious investigation, one that we take serious one that we will continue to diligently work on. And be very thorough with it. Gbi in our local partners here. So youll have to forgive us if we dont add a lot of the questions that you ask, i know you had many and we wish we could ask for many there for you, but we still obviously want to maintain the integrity of this investigation because it has a long way to go for it to be finished. Again, i also want to remind everyone that we need to continue to pray and support the victims that were involved here the school teachers, the faculty, the students, obviously those that lost their lives, their families, and those that were injured so i like to call them on the sheriff to come and give you a Brief Update on the status of those that were injured from yesterdays event. Thank you thank you. Director hosey as Director Hosey said, id like to to say that obviously we were lifting up those families. Our hearts are hurting for them, our kids, our students or teachers but the nine injured i am very happy to say, well make a full recovery and thats a testament to the response that we had in my Opinion Response to medical staff happen that responded with in my opinion and were very happy to say that they will make a full recovery after that that response again, please lift up our community please keep these children, these teachers we call them teachers, but i call them heroes we met with him today. Emotions are very high, obviously but we told them that we love them. We love our teachers and what they do. And were very happy at the fact that they stood in the gap between evil to protect their children. And we want to include them in the say, the lives that were saved as well yesterday but i wanted to report to you that all nine people that are injured will expect to make a full recovery . Thank you several of them are still in the hospital, some have been released father actually give well, im im well leave it as i mentioned, it in the release that he knowingly allowed him to possess the weapons. Director details about how the arrest happened today. Turn themselves. When did you guys make contact with them . How did that go with investigators this afternoon . Im honestly not familiar with the details ill i can tell you is that he is in custody at this time. In this case its difficult to say at this point in time, were obviously still investigating is following all leads, all evidence, and well such see where it takes us as we progress forward. Russian has been made sooner. The arrest was made when we had the probable cause to make the arrest we dont want to im not sure. No my dad im not sure about that either. Im sorry. Are you able to explain the charges he has more charges not in great detail. The biggest thing is i mentioned earlier is that he is in custody at this point in time. His charges are directly connected with the actions of his son and allowing him to possess a weapon shared. Wed be housing your facility that where he will be held how does that mean . Hell be held in the Barrow County Detention center . His Mug Shot be available tonight or will take some time for the market it depends on how long it takes us to book him. But if its available, we can get that to you all tonight. If not tomorrow. Thats some good news. Some have been released, you know, the numbers of patients at least victims i dont want to speak to that because i dont know the exact number, but i know that i want to just report that all now would make a full recovery and be able to leave the hospital nine people that were injured. Do we know if they are a mix of students and teachers or staff or are they just you and i believe i believe what to were Adult Teachers and the rest, which would be seven, would beat students i do. I tell you when Theres Precedent for charges like this im sorry. Can you explain whether there is precedent in the State Of Georgia as far as the gbi is concerned for the father or parents to be charged for the crime. I dont have any details. On any history of it, but i would venture to say its not something new. Can you tell us about the evidence that led to these charges no, maam. Thats part of the ongoing investigation and i apologize to all this time with him being able to talk with investigators were pretty strong yesterday were saying this was an evil act its very sad honestly but looking back at what the 14 yearolds been able to say to investigated over the last 24 hours. Can you reflect on just what this community is facing after what he allegedly did at the school while were what were facing heartbreak were heartbroken a young person brought a gun into a school committed an evil act and he took lives and the injured many other people, not only physically but mentally but im proud of Bear County im proud of our superintendent. Im proud of these teachers. Im proud of these schools. And im proud of where i live and well get past this you see behind me appear on the Hill Weve got a vigil going on at our flagpole i welcome you to go see those kids and those young people that are hurting can you please explain whether were still expecting more charges . I think i answered that earlier. Our investigation is still ongoing so well see where things go with a. I investigation. And ill leave it there. Thank you so much this all we have for tonight. Continue to follow gbi on x. Please monitor our website. We did not anticipate another update, but as you can see, its fluid things are developing. Again, we appreciate your patience and your support and your continued prayers for the victims. Thank you so you were. Hearing from authorities. Theyre limited in what they will say, but that the father of the Shooting Suspect has like his son now, today, been charged four counts and involuntary manslaughter for of Seconddegree Murder, as well as a charges related to crow we will tie two children. Im joined by isabel rosales. Who has been covering the story in georgia, former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin is with us and John Miller, our chief Law Enforcement Intelligence Analyst also, dave collin, who authored a definitive book. One of the most infamous mass School Shootings in u. S. History columbine john russell, what are you what are you learning . Well, we began to learn and this is based on reporting by Ryan Young down at the Scene And Mark morales here in new york, that this gun, an Ar 15 platform, was something that the father who was just charged, colin gave to his son as a christian Smiths Gift in december of 2023. Now that has extraordinary significance and a number of Levels Number one, it is just several months after we learned that the Jackson County Sheriff went to the house interviewed the father and the son about the fbi reports that he had made an online threat on a discord, right . Theres sonya allegedly had a Discord Account in which he made online threats to a School Shooting. The local authorities contacted by the fbi, interviewed both the son and the father. Thats right. Who denied any any such threats, right. Collins said that wasnt me. The on the computer the sunset, i would have never done that. But it did come from an account that the provider said belonged at that location and to those people, just scored by The Way, he said they remove that account in May Of 2023 exactly. But that posting showed rifles. Dan talked about shooting up the school the following pictures. So you really have to kind of when you look at a case like this, which is going to be about negligence. And indifference to the probability of what could happen. Factor that in that occurred before he gave them this gun as a gift. The other thing we can say in context is at the time he gave it to him, they were collin and his wife were in the middle of a very contentious Divorce And Child Custody Case with allegations and counter allegations and arrests and the wife had accused this alleged Shooters Mother had accused the alleged shooters father, her husband, of abuse verbal a hostile environment in that and then in the course of that, she was also arrested in a car where she was charged with possession of methamphetamine and other drugs. So what youre seeing is an environment that might not be the Ideal Environment for a 30 or a 14yearold to possess. Basically an Assault Weapon but another Father Argument was he doesnt have unfettered access to it. But if you listen closely to the interview with the sheriff at the time, Jackson County they talk about well, he has access to it, but not when its loaded and when we when we use it, we use it together. I just took them on his Hunting Trip and so on but its it clear, it clearly is a factor here that he did have access to it and ammunition because we know what allegedly happened. There were theres reporting also that as part of an Eviction Proceeding that had occurred, that authorities that actually remove guns from the home and then returned from the father and then ultimately returned them again. The interview with police took place in may. It was a now according to run young and others reporting in december around christmas, that the father, after having been interviewed by police, went and got an Ar 15 Style Weapon for his son jeff. I mean this is rare, although not unheard of second time in american history. Apparently that a parent has been charged in connection with the Mass Shooting by a minor. I think people may remember in michigan, just an in april the crumbley family, it was again, a shooting where a minor shot and killed four people and in an unprecedented case at that point the parents, jennifer and James Crumbley were charged with involuntary manslaughter. The same initial counts as in this case. The facts of that case involved was there a recklessness . Was there foreseeability there was a an issue in that case of not getting mental Health Assistance to the boy, which the school had recommended. Obviously, johns talking about the evidence we know the key issue in the case its against the father. Here will be recklessness of foreseeability how he handled the gun in in relation to his son, whats different from the michigan case in certainly jumped out to me when i heard the charges here in georgia. Is that its not just involuntary manslaughter, which suggests just recklessness the father in this case is also charged with Seconddegree Murder which suggests a much higher level of intentionality which prosecutors will have to prove what would that imply knowledge of a possible attack . It could, but even knowledge, i think it would be hard to make it rise to second degree murder, Seconddegree Murder in almost every case that im aware of involves intention, knowing an intentional is intentional murder and that obviously were just getting the evidence in this case, but thats a much higher road, much more difficult charge to prove that involuntary manslaughter, which is really just about recklessness, carelessness which certainly based on the facts of johns are laying out that scene its like a very memorable case against his father but Seconddegree Murder very different. Isabel. I mean, youve been reporting now on this all day. This news just broke just a minutes before we went on air. What do you hearing about reaction to it . What do youve been hearing throughout the day . Yeah. And i spoke to sheriff Jud Smith earlier today and he had told me that any option was possibly on the table, including charging cold grace, father in connection to this deadly shooting, one of the big questions i had after that interview with the sheriff is just how much Colt Gray is talking the sheriff told me that he was read his Miranda Rights and that he just kept talking and talking, even saying i did it. The sheriff told me that Colt Gray did not deny carrying out that shooting. And of course, we have that a stunning reporting from Mark Morales and Ryan Young that the Jackson County Sheriffs office spoke to the father. Cnn obtained that audio of that investigation. The father saying, no, my son did not have unsupervised unsupervised access to these guns yes. We like to hunt ms sun, didnt nine no, i would never write something like this. Not even joke about it, but then we have here around christmas time, around the holidays, 67 months later, the father Buying Him, according to our Law Enforcement sources, Buying Him the same gun that was used to carry out this heinous attack let me so the question becomes, sorry, let me just that that audio that you mentioned, we have that from that police interview. I just want to play that you have left ivey accessible to him they are having Theres Nothing loaded, but they are down we actually, we do a lot of shooting. We do a lot there on he shot his first year this year you know. So im pretty much in shock, maybe behalf well, im a little off to be even really honestly if that is what was said that its ahead. Yeah. So sorry, anderson, the question becomes, how does a 14yearold get access to these guns to carry out this attack Colin Gray was the adult in the household. You have deputies knocking on your door at talking with you about these very serious accusations, multiple tip saying that your son may be involved with sending out these threads. We have new reporting to about that incident are report from 2023, that Discord Account that John Miller was mentioning that the fbi linked to cold gray, where he referenced the whoever wrote the Post Reference plans for future Mass Shooting writing. Im committing a Mass Shooting and im waiting a good two to three years. Im ready posting images of the gun expressing desires to target and Elementary School expressing frustrations with the acceptance of transgender people. So how is it that these accusations, these threats are brought to your attention and then later on you end up what youre seeing a gun for your son. So the question becomes, what was the inaction that was taking in terms of locking away guns or the action taken by this father in terms of Buying Him a gun that could have possibly lead to this shooting. Theyre going to have to prove that in Court Dave Column in your book, columbine really opened my eyes to so much about Mass Shootings in america. Its, its a definitive study of what happened to columbine, which we hear that this alleged killer, this young man looked at other School Shootings and that is a common thing we hear in all of these School Shootings that oftentimes they go online, they look up and they even look back to columbine in a sort of idealizing way, looking at the two killers, at columbine, im wondering what your first of all, your reaction is now to the arrest of the father well, a couple of things ill come back to the arrest. Yeah researched this for 25th anniversary. We did in for a new preface and i believe they were there at 82 documented cases that we know of the shooters directly said in the writings are in a race that they were inspired by columbine or use it as a model but much more than that i think five or six the shooters it went five generations deep. So they studied the bar county shooting. Whos killers, study. I think northern illinois, who studied Virginia Tech and calamine Virginia Tech Sunday Columbine fine theres this. We havent been able to just incredible web and theres actually an atlantic piece you could linked to its incredible what were all roads are leading back to columbine in the almost studying these kids theyve learned because the people will first of all, they learned that bombs usually dont work. So they stopped that and just gone ahead per shooting and maximizing that horrible in there the reenacting This Smith Of Eric and dylan as heroic figures who stood up but for the nobodys everywhere against bullies and the whole thing is theres huge Tens Of Thousands of kids online in this community during this so much yeah, john, we talked had have you do you think this is going to be something that we hear more of parents being arrested. I think it is. I mean, youre watching states create laws, not all states about requiring the securing of firearms the school, even on its website, th